How to Use rent control in a Sentence

rent control

noun
  • Fifteen cities across the state have some form of rent control.
    — Liam Dillon, latimes.com, 16 June 2018
  • With rent controls, some pay as little as ten pounds per month.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2018
  • This approach is not as bumper-sticker-ready as rent control.
    — The Washington Post, Twin Cities, 26 Sep. 2019
  • These are their euphemisms for rent control and eviction bans.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Had the unit been rent controlled, his rent would have gone up by no more than $233.
    — Emily Deruy, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
  • But rent control is not the solution.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
  • This study makes clear that rent control is not just a housing policy.
    — Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 4 June 2026
  • Not everyone agrees rent control is the right way to help people.
    — Lisa J. Huriash, Sun Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2023
  • But voters in every region of the state back rent control, the poll found.
    — Emma Platoff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Lots of them are still under rent control because there is so very little turnover.
    — Nicholas Pileggi, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2025
  • On paper, rent control would help those struggling to afford a place to live.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
  • No rent control or historic preservation could cure me of that.
    — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Many newer rental housing units are not subject to rent control.
    — Matthew Ballinger, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2020
  • In the case of rent controls, the distortions go even further.
    — Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Cofer’s plan on rent control could have curried favor with those voters.
    — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Advocates want to limit this too, of course, with rent control.
    — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • But a state law passed in 1995 bans any new rent control policies since that year.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The little guy is getting priced out of a housing market with no rent control.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Before creating a rent increase plan, check to see if there are rent control laws in your area.
    — Alex Vasquez, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • But Seattle and other cities are banned by state law from adopting rent control.
    — Gene Johnson, ajc, 7 Dec. 2021
  • This kind of messy problem is what anyone can read about by sifting through the studies on rent control.
    — Star Tribune, 3 July 2021
  • New production and rent control can’t not exist in the same statement.
    — Phillip Molnar, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 July 2018
  • Bautista said groups like his, and others throughout the state, want to see stronger rent control and say the new laws don’t go far enough.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Protesters in Chicago last year urged a lifting of a ban on rent control.
    — Will Parker, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Fallon lived in one unit and rented out the others, first under rent control, then at fair market rents.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2021
  • In Ohio, rent control talk has been on the rise, especially in the larger cities.
    — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • Except for, umm, the big splashy rent control proposal that the president just rolled out.
    — Catherine Rampell, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • Virginia is one of 37 Americans states with laws against any kind of rent control.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2022
  • In the 45 years since, no local government has tried to install rent control.
    — Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Wu’s version of rent control likely would differ from the one that went away in the 1990s.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2021

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