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Massachusetts Weighs Return of Rent Control, Dividing Top Democrats

Wall Street Journal 16 Feb 2026
A midterm ballot proposal has drummed up early polling support, and rising opposition ... .
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Massachusetts Weighs Return of Rent Control

Political Wire 16 Feb 2026
“A fight is heating up in Massachusetts over what could become one of the nation’s strictest rent-control ...
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LETTER | Rent control fuels poverty and homelessness

Business Day 16 Feb 2026
There are historical parallels between rent control and failed ideologies .
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DANIËL ELOFF | Rent control is not a moral debate

Business Day 13 Feb 2026
Demand for housing is high in successful cities like New York and Cape Town .
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CAA pushes back as tenant groups pursue Redwood City rent control measure for 2026 ballot (CAA Sacramento Valley)

Public Technologies 13 Feb 2026
Tenant groups are working to qualify a November 2026 ballot measure in Redwood City that would impose strict rent control, expand just-cause eviction limits and create a new city program funded by annual fees on rental housing providers.
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Rent control exemptions good news for property investors and developers (Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce)

Public Technologies 13 Feb 2026
... to introduce rent control ... The exemptions, if enacted, would apply within any "rent control areas" - a concept provided for under the Housing (Scotland) Act that came into force last year.
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Boston gets rent-control fever

The Washington Post 12 Feb 2026
The mayor comes out in favor of setting price controls on housing ... .
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Santa Barbara approves temporary rent freeze ahead of potential rent control (CAA Sacramento Valley)

Public Technologies 11 Feb 2026
Rent increases imposed after that date do not reset the base rent and would be counted against future allowable increases under a permanent rent control program if one is adopted ... control ordinance.
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu backs statewide rent control proposal

Boston Herald 11 Feb 2026
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said she would vote for a ballot measure that would implement rent control statewide, after previously indicating she opposed it ... Craney said rent control has failed in other ...
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Judge validates tenant petition in Elizabeth rent control case

NJ 09 Feb 2026
Elizabeth’s tenants notched a partial victory in an ongoing legal battle with landlords over rent control, with a state judge’s ruling that they had collected enough valid signatures for a referendum to restore a $20-a-year cap on increases ....
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Activists seek signatures for Anaheim rent control ballot initiative (CAA Sacramento Valley)

Public Technologies 09 Feb 2026
Tenant activists have recently filed a notice of intent with the City of Anaheim for a November 2026 ballot initiative to impose strict rent control in Orange County's most populous city.
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San Leandro rent control ordinance imposes new limits, compliance requirements on landlords (CAA Sacramento Valley)

Public Technologies 09 Feb 2026
2, adopted a residential rent control ordinance affecting thousands of existing rental homes in the city ... single-family homes, state law places limits on how local rent control may be applied.
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Guest column: Rent control leads to loss of buildings, displacement and homelessness

Daily Freeman 09 Feb 2026
This is rent control’s endgame ... The REST Act seeks to spread this destruction of housing far and wide across New York state’s upstate cities by making it easy for upstate municipalities to adopt the failed policy of NYC rent control.
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Guest column: The state and stakes of rent control

Greenfield Recorder 05 Feb 2026
Rent control is a measure to limit the amount a landlord can increase rent in a given year ... Advocates from around the state are trying to get rent control on the ballot this year in an ... Here’s what rent control is not here to do.
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Rent controls are coming to the UK

BBC News 04 Feb 2026
Rent controls are coming to the UK - but they .

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