Rent Control And Other Housing Regulations

Joseph Smooke | 05/07/2018

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Cities and countries have made various attempts to regulate the housing market in order to ensure stability and affordability. Some have been more effective than others and as the housing market evolves, the strategies for regulation keep evolving as well.

Scotland

Rent Control and housing regulations

http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Built-Environment/Housing/privaterent/government/Tenancy-Review

France

    Rent Control

http://www.france24.com/en/20150801-rent-control-law-paris-france-effect-regulations

Paris, France

Right of First Refusal and budget allocations to affordable housing

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2016/05/paris-declares-war-on-ghettoes-for-the-rich/483072/

Tax on second homes

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/01/paris-france-property-taxes-vacation-homes/514496/

New Zealand 

Ban on Foreign Ownership

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/new-zealand-bans-foreigners-buying-homes-1.4785782?cmp=rss

Barcelona, Spain

Efforts to establish rent control similar to Paris and Berlin

http://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/alcaldessa/en/noticia/colau-demands-greater-investment-and-regulation-of-housing-from-the-ministry-of-public-works

Berlin, Germany

Rent Control and "Right of Preemption" or "Right of First Refusal"

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/08/berlin-rent-control-neighborhood-protection/536325/

    Rent Control

https://www.citylab.com/solutions/2012/09/berlins-invisible-gentrifiers/3144/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/01/rent-cap-legislation-in-force-berlin-germany

Restrictions on Short Term Rentals

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2016/12/berlin-has-the-worlds-toughest-anti-airbnb-laws-are-they-working/509024/

Ontario, Canada

Rent Control

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rent-byebye-1991-loophole-1.4077446