Price Effects of Rent Control on Controlled and Uncontrolled Rental Housing in Toronto: A Hedonic Index Approach

1985 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 652 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Fallis ◽  
Lawrence B. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Rental Housing ◽  
Rent Control ◽  
Index Approach ◽  
Price Effects ◽  
Hedonic Index

“The Right to Lease and Occupy a Home”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Gold
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
New York ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Rent Control ◽  
Private Housing ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines how tenants addressed three public policy questions: public housing, slum clearance, and civil rights. The rent-control statutes that tenants vigorously defended served to moderate prices that would otherwise be set higher by the law of supply and demand. However, many tenants and housers were aware that rent control was a superficial fix. The underlying problem was scarcity of housing and a consequent landlord's market. Therefore from the Depression onward, the city's tenants and their allies also promoted programs to build new rental units and improve old ones. The chapter considers how these efforts extended “New York exceptionalism” in two important ways: expansion of public housing and the opening of a new arena for black struggle. It also explores how New York exceptionalism extended into the private housing market and discusses the relationship between rental housing and black progress. It shows that, by organizing widely and using the courts and formal politics, tenants managed to hold the line on some of the gains they had made before and during the war.

scholarly journals Aantekeninge oor die Wet op Huurbehuising 50 van 1999

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
SPLR De la Harpe
Keyword(s):  
Rental Housing ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Rent Control ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
Bona Fide ◽  
The Right ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The Relationship

On 1 August 2000 the Rental Housing Act 50 of 1999 came into operation. This is a typical example of an act which attempts to, in conjunction with the private sector, provide for third generation fundamental rights. This note concentrates on the influence of the act on the contractual aspects of the rental agreement.Sections 4 and 5 have a direct influence on the relationship between the landlord and tenant. In particular matters like unfair discrimination and the right to privacy are addressed. Certain rights are afforded to third parties namely the members of the tenant’s household and bona fide visitors.Important aspects are inter alia the right to have the agreement reduced to writing and the provisions which are deemed to be contained in the agreement. This includes, amongst others, the right to receive receipts, certain information, payment of a deposit, interest on the deposit and the inspection of the property.The conclusion is made that the act is a welcome replacement of the Rent Control Act. There are however certain practicalities which could jeopardise the success of the act.  It is unlikely that the provinces have the capacity to implement the act. The protection provided by the act to the lower income groups may not materialise as they often do not know their rights and would often rather suffer the bad living conditions than risking the possibility of loosing it altogether by complaining.

Who Pays for Rent Control? Heterogeneous Landlord Response to San Francisco’s Rent Control Expansion

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 377-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Diamond ◽  
Tim McQuade ◽  
Franklin Qian
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Tax Burden ◽  
Rent Control ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Experimental Variation ◽  
Quasi Experimental

Using a 1994 law change, we exploit quasi-experimental variation in the assignment of rent control in San Francisco to study which types of landlords bear the burden of decreased rental payments versus substitute away from supplying rent-controlled housing. We find rent control leads to a long-run decrease in the supply of rental housing. This effect is more pronounced among properties managed by corporate landlords versus individual landlords. Raising revenue for rental subsidies through rent control appears to be regressive, since corporations can evade the tax burden of rent control more easily, likely due to their superior access to capital.

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