Benefits of Rent Control
Rent stabilization protects tenants from skyrocketing rents and puts reasonable limits on corporate real estate investors that are helping drive displacement across the state. It is an essential tool for promoting housing affordability and preventing homelessness—unrivaled in speed, scale, and cost-effectiveness. Leveraging this powerful tool could have a tremendous impact in Massachusetts.
Data and Reports
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Who would gain from rent control? Statewide, rent control would stabilize 911,000 households, protect 227,000 households from homelessness, benefit 355,100 essential workers… and more! Download our factsheets to learn more!
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Communities have organized across the country to win stronger rent control, and in response the real estate industry is attacking these gains. Each year, corporate landlords and the real estate lobby pour tens of millions of dollars into demonizing rent control, circulating misguided claims that are not founded in comprehensive evidence, or in centering how rent stabilization positively impacts people’s lives.
A recent report by the Greater Boston Real Estate Board (GBREB) greatly misconstrues rent stabilization’s relation to property values and tax revenues. It is biased and misleading.