Nolan Southerland, Democratic Socialist for Burbank City Council. Nolan is fighting for a better Burbank for all people.

With rents increasing by 40-60 percent in some cases as landlords compete with the market and high property taxes, neighbors want to see more protections for renters.

Planners recommended updates to Title 5.36 to clarify space rent vs. renting a coach, tighten exemptions for long leases, and peg operating-expense assumptions to a housing CPI index instead of a fixed 10% assumption.

Brookline and Easthampton are backing local rent control initiatives, but the Legislature is unlikely to greenlight either.

Un loyer abusif recouvre quatre situations distinctes, chacune avec son délai et son recours. Le complément de loyer se conteste dans les trois mois de la signature (sauf bail mobilité), le loyer initial au-dessus du plafond dans les trois ans, et la hausse au renouvellement devant le juge avant le terme du bail. En cours de bail, une révision exige une clause et le respect de l'IRL ; la saisine de la commission départementale de conciliation est un préalable obligatoire et gratuit avant le tribunal.

Frente Amplio's Ada Colau unveils a tax plan targeting large property owners to force rent reductions and increase affordable housing.

The committee recommended an ordinance that would require landlords to post or provide tenants with a standard notice explaining rent-increase limits and just-cause eviction protections under the local rent ordinance and the state Tenant Protection Act (AB 1482); the Rent Board will draft the standard notice and provide assistance and translations.

Brett Smiley was elected mayor of Providence in 2022 on a pledge to build more housing. He lost re-election over vetoing rent control, which he thinks is cheap, easy politics that can make a housing c...

After weeks of public testimony from residents whose space fees jumped sharply, the council directed staff to return by Oct. 28 with an urgency ordinance to pause extreme space‑fee increases and to develop a long‑term rent‑stabilization or fairness ordinance with a local review mechanism.

I've invited my MP to learn what's next for renters' rights. Will you do the same?

The Ministry of Housing has released an online tool to help tenants calculate maximum annual rent increases under new legislative caps.

Iceland’s central bank governor, Ásgeir Jónsson, says a cap on rents could raise prices and make rental housing harder to find, rather than solve affordability problems. He told mbl.is that market conditions may bring housing and rental costs back into balance without new rent-control legislation…

Residents, housing advocates and a regional manufactured-homeowners group told the Lake County Board of Supervisors that recent sales of mobile-home parks and subsequent lot-fee increases have put more than 1,000 people at risk and urged the board to finish a lot-fee stabilization ordinance and consider a moratorium.

Demonstrators take to the streets of Madrid ⁠and other Spanish cities ⁠after ​new legislation fails to pass