By Adam Pagnucco. Rent control laws are far from uniform. They contain many provisions on their allowable increases, exemptions, new construction, hardship petitions by landlords and many other issues. Perhaps…
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Should MoCo Adopt Rent Control? Part Four
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By Adam Pagnucco. Unless your goal is to stop construction of new housing, rent control of the kind practiced in Takoma Park is not the answer to Montgomery County’s housing…
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Should MoCo Adopt Rent Control? Part Three
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By Adam Pagnucco. Let’s imagine that you are saving for retirement. As you are exploring investment options, you come across a fund that caps its rate of return. You could…
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Should MoCo Adopt Rent Control? Part Two
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By Adam Pagnucco. Two sizeable jurisdictions in the Washington region have rent control. One of them is the District of Columbia, which has a rent control law with several exemptions. …
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Should MoCo Adopt Rent Control? Part One
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last week, County Executive Marc Elrich and a majority of county council members announced that they were introducing competing rent control bills. Whether one favors it or…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Progressives might be cheering the Prince George’s County Council’s passage of rent control yesterday, but there’s a catch: the new law has some interesting wrinkles in it. …
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Mount Rainier Passes Rent Control
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By Adam Pagnucco. In a development sure to ripple across the region, the Prince George’s County municipality of Mount Rainier has passed a rent control ordinance. Who will be next?…
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A Time for Crime, Part Four
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By Adam Pagnucco. Let’s start applying what we learned this week to the county’s newest crime initiative – the executive’s proposed legislation to crack down on late night businesses. The…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last November, I published real estate data provided by Silver Spring broker Liz Brent showing that declining inventories of homes for sale were resulting in soaring home…
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MoCo Restaurants in the Pandemic, Part Five
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By Adam Pagnucco. During the pandemic, Montgomery County’s restaurant industry took bigger hits on employment, wages paid and net losses in number of restaurants than most other large jurisdictions in…