Guest column by Salim Furth. Relatively tight rent regulation has been in place in the City of Takoma Park since 1981, although the specifics of…
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Rent Control: A Regional Comparison
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…
Should MoCo Adopt Rent Control? Part Four
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…
Should MoCo Adopt Rent Control? Part Three
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…
Should MoCo Adopt Rent Control? Part Two
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…
Should MoCo Adopt Rent Control? Part One
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. …
By Adam Pagnucco. In separate press releases, County Executive Marc Elrich and most members of the county council have announced their intent to introduce competing…
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…
Mount Rainier Passes Rent Control
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…
Will MoCo Get Rent Control?
By Adam Pagnucco. In the wake of County Executive Marc Elrich’s inauguration speech, in which he vowed to pass rent control, it’s reasonable to ask…