"Love is in air" if you happen to live in a city infested with rats. After states, like California, restricted toxic rodenticides, some cities are starting to use a more humane way to control the rat ...

According to research conducted by the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC), many major cities across the United States do have rent control laws — even if these laws aren’t fully applicable at ...

Their ruling reinforced the grip of SB 1350, the 2017 law that bars jurisdictions from banning or broadly limiting short-term ...

Eliza Lucero, with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, speaks during a protest to demand that Colorado lift the ban on rent control at the State Capitol on March 5, 2023, in Denver. With rents ...

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Few policies raise economists’ ire as much as rent control. “In many cases,” Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck famously said, “rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to ...

If voters approve Proposition 33, it would allow cities to put rent caps on properties and units that they currently cannot cap, including newer apartment buildings, single family houses and vacant ...

St. Louis police at a crime scene on April 29, 2021. Last week, the Missouri House approved a bill that would give the governor control of the city's police force. The Missouri House has passed a bill ...

The planned site of the Northwest Colorado Business District greenfield business and industrial park in Hayden, Colorado. (Photo courtesy Town of Hayden) This is your first of three free stories this ...