Landlord–Tenant & Fair Housing

1+ hour, 27+ min ago   (622+ words) As she waited in line to enter Bowdoin’s special town meeting Monday night, Iola Cook placed the odds of residents passing mobile home lot rent restrictions at 50-50. An hour and a half later, she was proven exactly right. The Bowdoin…...

8+ hour, 21+ min ago   (843+ words) Landlords say Mayor Daniel Lurie’s rent emergency is “a bit cringey,” and the city is to blame for skyrocketing rents. When Mayor Daniel Lurie declared a state of emergency around skyrocketing rental costs, landlords gritted their teeth. “Our mantra has…...

6+ hour, 23+ min ago   (1108+ words) A group of Detroit tenants is hoping that a challenge to the way evictions are handled in court will dramatically improve housing conditions. Landlords warn this approach could destabilize the city’s already fragile rental market. They might both be right....

16+ hour, 45+ min ago   (1676+ words) In states with rent control, the law limits how much a landlord can raise rent. Those legal caps typically reset every year (and vary by location), but cities and counties within the same state may still have vastly different rent…...

1+ day, 37+ min ago   (204+ words) Image above, the One Mystic Avenue project was approved back in 2023 but has been stalled, holding up 423 residential units, including 221 condominiums and 202 rental units. Boston Planning image Abatements totaling $31.5m to fuel work on 1,400 new units The estimated $31.5 million package works…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (556+ words) New York's Cooperative and Condominium Community Carnegie House at the corner of Sixth Avenue and West 57th Street. Score a win for the little guys in the ongoing battle over the value of the land beneath the city's 100 land-lease co-ops. In…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (533+ words) A Westmeath landlord who evicted a tenant and her two children claiming he required the property for his daughter before advertising it at a higher rent has been ordered to pay €15,000 in damages. Padraig Coyne’s actions were described as “egregious…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (19+ words) nbcbayarea.com New rent control measure in Redwood City sparks debate...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (502+ words) Volunteers hit the streets in Redwood City on Saturday to get out the vote in favor of a new rent control measure. If passed in November, Measure E would roll some rents back to 2025 rates and add caps on rent…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (24+ words) Eviction is practically baked into the way Britain manages its tenanted homes. Here’s how it played out—over and over again—for my parents....