Massachusetts’s highest court has blocked a statewide rent stabilization initiative from the November 2026 ballot on a technicality. A single religious exemption in the measure violated the state’s constitution, the court ruled. In a unanimous ruling Tuesday, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court killed a petition that would have capped annual rent increases statewide at either […]

Providence, Rhode Island’s city council passed rent stabilization but failed to override the mayor’s veto. Rent stabilization is now one of the sharpest fault lines in the 2026 mayoral race. In September, voters will decide between a Democratic mayoral incumbent who vetoed the ordinance and a Democratic state representative from Providence who is promising rent […]