In an interview, the candidate argued that the policy is essential to get voters on board with pro-housing reforms.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. There is no pixie dust in rental housing, only rent. Like any other ...

Over ten percent of apartment renters failed to pay rent in December 2020, which sounds bad. But the prior December, before the pandemic and during a great job market, nearly eight percent didn't pay ...

Among those with the most to gain from rent reporting are the nearly 49 million adult Americans who don't have a credit score ...

Some renters are having difficulty paying their rent. About 24% of American renters are experiencing rent affordability issues amid high rent prices and other factors, according to a survey put out ...

Economists hate it, but imposed in moderation it isn’t automatically ruinous. Meat-ax approaches like Zohran Mamdani’s in New ...

Fake rental ads are a widespread and vexing problem on some online platforms, and any listing that sounds too good to be true could be a scam that could swindle housing-seekers out of hundreds of ...

For many decades, “standard” ground leases said that every 20 or 30 years, the ground rent would adjust to equal 6 or 7 percent of the current appraised value of the land under the building. Between ...

Ten million renters are behind on their payments, according to the Census Bureau’s Housing Pulse Survey. The total back rent owed could be $70 billion, though nobody has a precise figure. John ...