How to Use rent control in a Sentence

rent control

noun

• Had the unit been rent controlled, his rent would have gone up by no more than $233.
  — Emily Deruy, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
• Fifteen cities across the state have some form of rent control.
  — Liam Dillon, latimes.com, 16 June 2018
• During the 1970s, the city passed what was then one of the nation’s strongest rent control laws.
  — Liam Dillonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2022
• But a state law passed in 1995 bans any new rent control policies since that year.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2019
• In the case of rent controls, the distortions go even further.
  — Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 10 Oct. 2019
• But voters in every region of the state back rent control, the poll found.
  — Emma Platoff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2023
• Wu’s version of rent control likely would differ from the one that went away in the 1990s.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2021
• Bautista said groups like his, and others throughout the state, want to see stronger rent control and say the new laws don’t go far enough.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
• With rent controls, some pay as little as ten pounds per month.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2018
• The rent control initiative failed, with 60% of voters against and 40% for.
  — Heather Vogell, ProPublica, 7 Feb. 2022
• In Ohio, rent control talk has been on the rise, especially in the larger cities.
  — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 6 July 2022
• The city determined that the east tower, built in 1997, will fall under rent control in five years.
  — Kate King, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
• Not everyone agrees rent control is the right way to help people.
  — Lisa J. Huriash, Sun Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2023
• These are their euphemisms for rent control and eviction bans.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2023
• This approach is not as bumper-sticker-ready as rent control.
  — The Washington Post, Twin Cities, 26 Sep. 2019
• New York is the only place in the country where a rent control scheme is tied to the promotion of housing scarcity.
  — Jay Martin, New York Daily News, 10 Feb. 2024
• Virginia is one of 37 Americans states with laws against any kind of rent control.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2022
• This kind of messy problem is what anyone can read about by sifting through the studies on rent control.
  — Star Tribune, 3 July 2021
• Advocates want to limit this too, of course, with rent control.
  — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• There is no sound reason to impose New York-style rent schemes — in this case, federal rent control — on the rest of the country.
  — Joseph Strasburg, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
• A few months ago, Oregon became the first state to implement statewide rent control.
  — New York Times, 16 July 2019
• In the 45 years since, no local government has tried to install rent control.
  — Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2022
• But Seattle and other cities are banned by state law from adopting rent control.
  — Gene Johnson, ajc, 7 Dec. 2021
• Protesters in Chicago last year urged a lifting of a ban on rent control.
  — Will Parker, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2022
• New production and rent control can’t not exist in the same statement.
  — Phillip Molnar, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 July 2018
• Before creating a rent increase plan, check to see if there are rent control laws in your area.
  — Alex Vasquez, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• This summer, Kingston, New York, became the first upstate city to enact rent control.
  — Michael Casey, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
• No on Proposition 33 The state already has rent control.
  — Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
• Don't skyrocketing prices affect her, doesn't the lack of rent control affect their welfare?
  — NBC News, 1 Sep. 2024
• Cities cannot set rent control on single-family homes or apartments built after 1995.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Nov 2024