Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Efforts to expand rent control
We dig in again on rent control. Yesterday we heard about Santa Monica, which passed tough rent control laws in 1979. The city is basically a case study in what happens when you restrict how much landlords can raise rents.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readWe dig in again on rent control. Yesterday we heard about Santa Monica, which passed tough rent control laws in 1979. The city is basically a case study in what happens when you restrict how much landlords can raise rents. Today, we look at the newly energized campaigns to bring rent control to more cities.
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3 of 5Trump is coming to California- 0:00As DOJ fights California over immigration, where is Trump's support in the state?
- 8:10Trump meets with video game makers amid concern about school violence
- 18:45Efforts to expand rent controlYou’re reading this
- 28:24$2 billion in homeless funding not spent
- 36:46Why 'Falling Down' is still relevant decades after its release