There is a version of the rent control debate that never gets had. It is not the argument about supply curves and housing starts, which economists conduct among themselves and which persuades no one who did not already agree. It is a more basic question, and Salinas voters will face it directly on November 3, […]
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Sweden’s Housing Shortage: Lessons on Rent Control and Planning
In 2016, Sweden’s National Housing, Building and Planning report made headlines with a sobering statistic: more than 255 out of 290 municipalities reported a housing shortage. Despite record levels of construction at the time, demand still far outstripped supply—especially in metropolitan areas like Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. So why, even during a period of high […]
In March 2020, Covid-19 caught everyone off guard in California and there’s no doubt that having a moratorium on evictions was necessary to keep thousands of people off the streets but as the eviction moratorium moves into it’s 4th month, there’s been little talk in the media about the unseen costs of the eviction moratorium. […]
The statewide eviction ban may be close to coming to an end but that hasn’t stopped the Governor and lawmakers from throwing their support behind local governments in their efforts to continue local eviction bans. This was to be expected since multiple lawsuits against the Statewide eviction ban may be bringing that to a close […]
Doug Michie, a Ventura based lawyer, filed a complaint on May 8th. 2020 with the 3rd district court of California against the Governor’s executive order banning the evictions of tenants who are living in rental properties across the state. In his complaint, Michie used specific text from the United States Constitution as the basis for […]




