News About the Lawsuit

• The Federalist Society: Litigation Update on New York’s “Rent Stabilization” Law
• City Journal: Rent Control: Unjust and Ineffective
• Real Estate Weekly: National groups throw weight behind New York rent control lawsuit
• New York Daily News: Why we’re fighting rent laws in court
• Law 360: NYC Rent Regs Could Be Seen As Unconstitutional Takings
• AM New York: Tenant advocates aim to join lawsuit challenging rent regulations
• POLITICO: Tenant advocates seeking to intervene in rent regulation lawsuit
• NY1: Errol Louis discussed a lawsuit challenging New York state’s new rent regulations with attorney Andrew Pincus and Jay Martin of Community Housing Improvement Program
• WSJ: Landlords Challenge New York’s Rent-Control Law in Federal Court
• New York Law Journal: Landlords File Federal Lawsuit Challenging New York’s Rent Control Laws
• The Real Deal: Landlord groups RSA, CHIP plan federal lawsuit over new rent law
• NY Post: Landlord groups planning lawsuit over new NY rent law

News About NY Rent Laws

• The Wall Street Journal: New York City Likely to Freeze Rent on Regulated Apartments Until October 2021
• The Real Deal: Rent board casts preliminary vote in favor of freezing rents
• The Real Deal: Rent board report estimates 2.5% to 3.5% increases
• The Real Deal: State’s highest court strikes down portion of rent law
• The Wall Street Journal: New York Landlords Slow Apartment Upgrades, Blame New Rent Law
• CBS 2: NYC Landlords Say New Laws Designed To Protect Renters Preventing Them From Maintaining Their Units
• New York Daily News: We can’t survive new rent laws: A small-building landlord says reforms will lead to deterioration of housing stock
• New York Post: Beware the ‘universal rent control’ drive to destroy New York’s housing markets
• The Wall Street Journal: Sales of New York City Rent-Regulated Buildings Plummet After New Law
• New York Post: Relentlessly squeezed by the city and state: A landlord’s tale
• Crain’s New York Business: Held back by rent reform: Landlords decide it’s too costly to repair certain units
• Commercial Observer: The Threat to NYC’s Growth, Affordability and Quality of Life
• GlobeSt: Slowdown in NYC Multifamily Market Won’t Let Up
• New York Law Journal: Sweeping Reforms to Rent Overcharge Under New Rent Laws
• New York Law Journal: The Intended Consequences of the HSTPA
• New York Post: New rent law helps tenant jailed in Rikers on murder charges beat eviction
• The Real Deal: Another blow to landlords: New MCI rules are made retroactive, nixing some rent hikes
• Commercial Observer: Manhattan Apartment Building Sales Slump. Thanks, Regulation Reform!
• The Real Deal: Death march for NYC’s multifamily market continues
• Multi-Housing News: Rent Regulations Leading to Less Investment: Report
• Crain’s New York Business: The new rent-regulation laws continue to defy logic
• The Wall Street Journal: After New York Rent Reform, Some Landlords Are Falling Behind
• BisNow: NYC Property Sales Continue To Slide As CRE Heavyweights Bemoan ‘Disaster’ Policies
• POLITICO: Housing watchdog group planning ‘crusade’
• New York Daily News: Tenants group pushing for billions of dollars in new taxes in Albany
• The Real Deal: Brokerages on rental application fee cap: “It hurts”
• The New York Times: A Rent-Stabilized Apartment on Central Park? Of Course He’s Staying
• BisNow: Philadelphia Is Experiencing An Influx of New York Investors Fleeing Rent Control
• Multi-Housing News: Rent Control Will Not Cure Homelessness
• WSJ: How to Kill a Housing Market
• Crain’s: Tax losses from new rent regs could hit $1B a year, REBNY chief says
• Commercial Observer: The Law of Unintended Consequences
• The Real Deal: New NYC rent law “beginning to shut down investment”
• The Real Deal: Vicki Been says good cause eviction measure shouldn’t just reflect “flavor of the day”
• New York Daily News: The rent regulation debacle: The owner of a small building explains how the new law will hurt her
• Bisnow: Senate Housing Chair Brian Kavanagh On Rent Reform Backlash: Real Estate ‘Is Used To Getting Its Way’
• Commercial Observer: Breaking Down the New Rent Laws and What They Mean for the Real Estate Industry
• New York Daily News: Rent laws are welfare for the rich: Time for New York to have a smart conversation over a costly housing regulatory system
• New York Post: New York’s new rent law could wind up killing rent control

News About Rent Regulation

• Crain’s: Small landlords will suffer if they can’t collect rent
• New York Post: The push for ‘universal rent control’ will devastate New York’s housing stock
• The Real Deal: Eviction bill could stop condo, co-op owners from booting tenants
• The Real Deal: End of tenant-pays broker fees is “death knell” that will cost jobs and up rents, industry says
• The Stranger: The Case Against Rent Control
• Forbes: Analysis: Rent Control Is About Politics Not Housing
• Bloomberg: Rent Controls Are Not the Answer
• Bloomberg: New U.S. Rent Regulations Already Eroding Values of Apartments
• The Washington Post: The economists are right: Rent control is bad
• City Journal: California’s New Rent Control Law is Not Good For Housing Construction and Affordability
• Forbes: Poverty And Affordable Housing – California’s New Rent Control Law Will Make Things Worse
• Freakonomics: Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work (Ep. 373)
• NPR: The Evidence Against Rent Control