Massachusetts Weighs Return of Rent Control

“A fight is heating up in Massachusetts over what could become one of the nation’s strictest rent-control measures,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“A group of housing advocates and labor unions want to stop landlords from raising rents by more than the state’s annual rate of inflation—but no higher than 5%—a year. They amassed enough signatures late last year to qualify their proposal for this November’s ballot, launching New England’s most populous state headlong into the debate over whether policing rent helps tenants.”