rent control
noun
: government regulation of the amount charged as rent for housing and often also of eviction
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Moreover, unlike the debates on health care, rent control or free bus rides, the government effort on this front is quite bipartisan.
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Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
Supporters of rent control, improving public records access, reducing the income tax, starter home construction and all-party primaries are among proposals still in the mix.
—State House News Service, Boston Herald, 24 Nov. 2025
As Trumponomics continues to fail and Mamdani rediscovers that rent control doesn’t work, there will come a time when reality reasserts itself.
—Sal Rodriguez, Oc Register, 22 Nov. 2025
Opposition to rent control Multiple real estate groups oppose the proposal.
—Anna Meiler, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2025
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Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
Supporters of rent control, improving public records access, reducing the income tax, starter home construction and all-party primaries are among proposals still in the mix.
—State House News Service, Boston Herald, 24 Nov. 2025
As Trumponomics continues to fail and Mamdani rediscovers that rent control doesn’t work, there will come a time when reality reasserts itself.
—Sal Rodriguez, Oc Register, 22 Nov. 2025
Opposition to rent control Multiple real estate groups oppose the proposal.
—Anna Meiler, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2025
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“Rent control.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rent%20control. Accessed 5 Dec. 2025.
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