Landlords

Conceived as a stop-gap measure, New York City's cluster site program essentially pays landlords to house homeless people. Now, Mayor de Blasio wants to convert some of those sites directly into affordable units.

January 4, 2018 - The New York Times

The political support for an expanded set of tenant protections emerged in response to the program of rezonings underway as part of the de Blasio Administration's housing plan.

November 20, 2017 - Politico

Mom and Pop Make Way for Institutional Investors in the Landlord Business

September 5, 2017 - The New York Times

Cities, headlined by New York, are finding new ways to support renters facing eviction.

September 1, 2017 - The Nation

An additional 3,500 units means more money for land owners and more choices apartment seekers in east Harlem.

June 18, 2017 - Crain's New York Business

Matthew Desmond's ethnographic study has received critical praise. But David Adler asks whether the book's approach tacitly lets affluent non-landlords off the hook.

May 20, 2017 - Current Affairs

Landlords in Milwaukee have several methods for avoiding paying fines and property taxes—it's all a part of gaming the system. After the local paper investigated the "landlord games," the city is taking action.

May 12, 2017 - Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel

U.S. landlords are getting a bigger share of the economic pie than they ever have before, according to new government data.

May 10, 2017 - Market Watch

What drivers are to rideshare companies, landlords are to Airbnb. In response to complaints, the company is upping outreach to its hosts.

March 18, 2017 - The Mercury News

A new era of rental property management technology will have effects on both the landlord and the tenant side of the equation.

March 15, 2017 - Forbes

2017 has all the makings of a classic showdown in Oregon, where the state legislature will consider to policies that deeply divide the interest interests of tenants and landlords.

January 16, 2017 - The Portland Mercury

Washington, D.C. might prohibit landlords from asking tenants for criminal histories, at least at first pass.

December 16, 2016 - Next City

An apartment-hunting website that highlights landlords' credibility has not earned their cooperation.

October 31, 2016 - New York Times

On the promise of ownership, rent-to-own landlords make tenants pay for repairs. And on the lower end, homes often come with code violations built in. This market's legal grey spaces distinctly echo 2008.

August 31, 2016 - New York Times

Discrimination has always been a threat as landlords consider new tenants, but now there's new technology to potentially exacerbate the problem.

August 28, 2016 - Quartz

More than 20,000 rent-controlled units have left the market in Los Angeles since 2001—a problem exacerbated by options for short-term rentals. Now the City Attorney's Office is fighting back.

June 24, 2016 - Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles is moving toward creating a path to amnesty and affordability for habitable, but unpermitted residential units.

April 16, 2016 - Los Angeles Times

Exploring the persistence of racial segregation as a result of U.S. housing policies—policies intended to break patterns of segregation, not reproduce them.

June 10, 2015 - The Atlantic

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto has proposed a new fee on landlords to help enforce scofflaws. An editorial by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, however, argues that the math behind the fee doesn’t add up.

November 27, 2014 - Pittsburg Post-Gazette

Homebuilders in recession-struck Bakersfield, California, have turned into landlords, renting their units while they wait for the housing market to rebound.

July 26, 2010 - The Wall Street Journal