Topic
Rent Control
193 published works
inversecondemnation.com
New Cert Petition (Ours): Can Courts Choose To Avoid Constitutional Challenges To Rent Control By Making Owners Chase Pointless Denials?
Here's the cert petition (filed yesterday) which asks whether a takings challenge to rent control which is justiciable under Article III (plaintiff has suffered a concrete injury that is fairly…
Religion Clause
Massachusetts Supreme Court Invalidates Initiative Petition That Excludes Religious Housing from Rent Controls
The Massachusetts Constitution Art. 48 which sets out the procedures for initiative petitions provides in part that no measure relating to religion, religious practices or religious institutions may be proposed by an…
The Massachusetts Real Estate Law Blog
BREAKING: SJC Blocks Rent Control Ballot Initiative From November Ballot
Court Rules Religious Exemption Is Unconstitutional In a major decision affecting the future of Massachusetts housing policy, the Supreme Judicial Court today has ruled that the proposed statewide rent control…
DMConsultants Blog
EL FIN DE LA PRÓRROGA EXTRAORDINARIA DE ALQUILERES
¿Y ahora qué pasa con mi contrato? El Origen del Conflicto Durante los últimos meses, el Gobierno había implementado una medida de choque para mitigar la crisis de vivienda. Esta…
The Landlord Law Blog
Six ways the Renters Rights Act will change renting: Part 5, Rent Issues
This is the fifth in my series about the likely implications of and outcomes from the introduction of the Renters Rights Act 2025. There is quite a bit in the…
The Landlord Law Blog
Drafting a new Renters’ Rights Act Tenancy Agreement – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I explained my initial thinking behind a new Renters’ Rights Act compliant tenancy agreement for Landlord Law, my membership site. But now I had…
Property Legal Insider
Government publishes new National Student Accommodation Strategy
By David Fitzgerald, Aoife Smyth
The Irish Government has published its National Student Accommodation Strategy 2026–2035 (the Strategy), setting out a decade-long roadmap to deliver approximately 42,000 additional student beds through a combination of purpose-built…
Whitman Legal Solutions Blog
Rent Control – What the Data Doesn't Show
La Bohème is Giacomo Puccini’s opera about young artists trying to build lives in Paris in the 1830s. The opera also serves as a basis for Jonathan Larson’s musical Rent,…
Dispute Resolution Blog
Settling The Clash Between The Public Premises Act And State Rent Control Laws
By Aditya Mehta, Manan Shah, Poornima Eapen
Summary: This article traces the Supreme Court’s resolution of the long-standing conflict between State rent control legislations and the Public Premises Act (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 1971 (“PP Act”).…
Property Legal Insider
New rent control rules: insights from ALG’s Audio Lab
By Aoife Smyth
We are pleased to share with you our Audio Lab series examining the new residential residential rent control regime which took effect on 1 March. In these podcasts we examine…