How to Use rent control in a Sentence

rent control

noun
  • Had the unit been rent controlled, his rent would have gone up by no more than $233.
    Emily Deruy, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
  • During the 1970s, the city passed what was then one of the nation’s strongest rent control laws.
    Liam Dillonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2022
  • But a state law passed in 1995 bans any new rent control policies since that year.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2019
  • In the case of rent controls, the distortions go even further.
    Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 10 Oct. 2019
  • But voters in every region of the state back rent control, the poll found.
    Emma Platoff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Wu’s version of rent control likely would differ from the one that went away in the 1990s.
    BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Bautista said groups like his, and others throughout the state, want to see stronger rent control and say the new laws don’t go far enough.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The rent control initiative failed, with 60% of voters against and 40% for.
    Heather Vogell, ProPublica, 7 Feb. 2022
  • In Ohio, rent control talk has been on the rise, especially in the larger cities.
    Roger Valdez, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • The city determined that the east tower, built in 1997, will fall under rent control in five years.
    Kate King, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Not everyone agrees rent control is the right way to help people.
    Lisa J. Huriash, Sun Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2023
  • These are their euphemisms for rent control and eviction bans.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2023
  • This approach is not as bumper-sticker-ready as rent control.
    The Washington Post, Twin Cities, 26 Sep. 2019
  • New York is the only place in the country where a rent control scheme is tied to the promotion of housing scarcity.
    Jay Martin, New York Daily News, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Virginia is one of 37 Americans states with laws against any kind of rent control.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2022
  • This kind of messy problem is what anyone can read about by sifting through the studies on rent control.
    Star Tribune, 3 July 2021
  • Advocates want to limit this too, of course, with rent control.
    Roger Valdez, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • There is no sound reason to impose New York-style rent schemes — in this case, federal rent control — on the rest of the country.
    Joseph Strasburg, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • A few months ago, Oregon became the first state to implement statewide rent control.
    New York Times, 16 July 2019
  • In the 45 years since, no local government has tried to install rent control.
    Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2022
  • But Seattle and other cities are banned by state law from adopting rent control.
    Gene Johnson, ajc, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Protesters in Chicago last year urged a lifting of a ban on rent control.
    Will Parker, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2022
  • New production and rent control can’t not exist in the same statement.
    Phillip Molnar, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 July 2018
  • Before creating a rent increase plan, check to see if there are rent control laws in your area.
    Alex Vasquez, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • This summer, Kingston, New York, became the first upstate city to enact rent control.
    Michael Casey, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
  • No on Proposition 33 The state already has rent control.
    Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Watch the full interview to hear about the effects of short-term rentals – like Airbnb – and rent control on affordable housing.
    Emily Hamilton, The Conversation, 28 Feb. 2022
  • And on Tuesday, Newsom signed a partial rent control bill.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Holiday pointed to rent control, which is popular with local activists but banned by state law.
    Annalise Frank, Axios, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Santa Ana has taken a holistic approach to addressing homelessness by maintaining a year-round shelter and enacting a rent control and just cause eviction ordinance to protect renters.
    Destiny Torres, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024

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