Tag Archives: affordability
New apartment buildings raise rents for low-income neighbours, study finds
A widely cited argument in housing policy holds that building more market-rate apartments will, over time, reduce rents for everyone. A new peer-reviewed study challenges that premise — at least at the neighbourhood level — finding that new construction raises
European courts converging on principle that landlords have no right to maximum profit, study finds
Courts across Europe are increasingly ruling that landlords have no constitutional right to maximum profits from rental housing — a legal shift that a new academic paper argues represents a broader counter-movement against neoliberal property politics. The paper, published in
