How to Use rent control in a Sentence

rent control

noun

• Still, executives are wary about the advancement of rent control.
  — Will Parker, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2020
• Ms Hidalgo has also strengthened Paris’s rent controls.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Nearly 8 in 10 support making more apartments subject to rent control.
  — Scott Clement, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2019
• London Mayor Sadiq Khan, for instance, is campaigning for rent control to bring down housing costs.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2020
• Land-use regulations have restricted the supply of housing, leading to high prices and shortages, and Newsom’s answer is statewide rent control that will make things worse.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 26 Oct. 2019
• His most recent sop to progressives is nationwide rent control, an idea almost unanimously detested by economists.
  — Catherine Rampell, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
• This kind of tenant organizing is the reason rent control came to exist in New York City during the 1940s.
  — Daniel Boguslaw, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2020
• In Paris, where 70 percent of residents are renters, Mayor Anne Hidalgo imposed new rent controls.
  — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2019
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Watch the full interview to hear about the effects of short-term rentals – like Airbnb – and rent control on affordable housing.
  — Emily Hamilton, The Conversation, 28 Feb. 2022
• But even in New York’s flawed system, rent increases are more than what the federal rent control plan calls for.
  — Joseph Strasburg, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024