Rent Control in North America and Four European Countries

Rent control, the governmental regulation of the level of payment and tenure rights for rental housing, occupies a small but unique niche within the broad domain of public regulation of markets

Autorentext
Michael B. Teitz is Director of Research at the Public Policy Institute of California and Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught from 1963 until 1998. He has written and consulted widely on housing economics and policy, working with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the municipal governments of New York City, Los Angeles, and Ber-keley, California, among others. His work on rent control began when he served as project leader for the Rand Corporation's studies of housing and rent control in New York City between 1968 and 1970. Subsequently, he was responsible for the specifications of a series of studies of rent stabiliza-tion in Los Angeles from 1984 to 1994. In addition, he has written about rent control in California and has studied its impacts in Berkeley. In 1988, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for research on rent control.

Inhalt
Rent Control: Its Origins, History, and Controversies, Rent Control Legislation and Administration, The Courts and Rent Control, The Economics of Rent Regulation, The Politics of Rent Control, A Social Perspective on Rent Control, The Success and Failure of Strong Rent Control in the City of Berkeley, 1978 to 1995, Moderating Market Pressures for Washington, D.C., Rental Housing 110 Rent Stabilization in Los Angeles, A Moderate Approach to Regulation, New Jersey's Rent Control Movement, Rent Regulation in New York City, A Protracted Saga, Toronto's Changing Rent Control Policy, Controlling ImMobile Home Space Rents, Conclusion