In July, Mark Paul, an associate professor at Rutgers University and one of the letter’s signatories, proposed a framework for national rent control that would limit annual increases to 3% or three-quarters of the local Consumer Price Index, whichever is lower — and apply those limits to all rental housing nationwide, including single-family homes and manufactured housing.
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Rent Control
How Much Can My Landlord Raise the Rent?
In some localities, rents cannot rise as fast as inflation, while in Oregon, a statewide rule from 2019 allows rents to rise more quickly, limiting increases to 7 percent above the Consumer Price Index. Mark Paul, an economist at Rutgers University, said that permits landlords in Oregon to raise rents an average of 9 or 10 percent a year, which makes it less of a traditional rent control policy and more of an “anti-gouging” measure.
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“The same thing is happening with rent control,” Paul said. “When we see states considering it, developers are saying ‘we’re going to leave’ but that really hasn’t played out.”
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Paul, the Rutgers expert, is interested in studies examining the connection between rent control policies and property tax hikes. But he said this one isn’t up to snuff.
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“Rents are the high, and they’ve gone up quite a bit, particularly since the pandemic,” said Eric Seymour, a Rutgers University professor who co-authored a study looking at rent control in New Jersey. “And so there’s interest in understanding the policy levers available to try to keep rents manageable.”
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As rents soar across California and housing affordability slips further out of reach for millions, an intensifying debate over rent control is being fueled by a growing stack of academic research. For decades, real estate interests and conservative economists have...
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“It will take a good deal of time in order to see that new supply has an effect on affordability in markets,” said Eric Seymour of Rutgers University’s Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.
Rent-control measure’s changes to SF clear, but its effects aren’t
“Things like rent control are mainly going to redistribute profits from builders and existing landlords to tenants,” said Paul, who called San Francisco’s own measure a “common-sense approach” for boosting housing affordability.
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“We can design smart rent control policies to deliver both affordability and stability for renters while also maintaining a healthy market for people to continue building.”