No Such Thing As Local Rent Control

As many of you know, a number of state and local policymakers in Massachusetts have been pushing to bring rent control back to our state. Some of them want a full repeal of the statewide ban on rent control that SPOA helped pass in 1994, while others want city-specific exemptions from that ban. Either way, allowing rent control anywhere in Massachusetts would have disastrous ripple effects on nearby parts of the state--even if those areas remained free of rent control themselves. This graphic provides information on the issue of local-option rent control in Massachusetts, and on SPOA’s goals more generally.