A new report from Cavan Companies adds to a growing body of research identifying the Midwest as a leading region for rental housing returns and rent growth.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivered on a key campaign promise to freeze rents for many residents. The Rent Guidelines Board gave him what he sought last night. It froze rents on one-year leases and, for the first time, two-year leases in rent-stabilized apartments. Those units make up roughly 41% of the city’s apartment […]

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wants to “build, baby, build,” but a bipartisan housing ıslahat package is limping in the legislature. Nonetheless, a single-stair bill outside that comprehensive package has stepped up. The Michigan Senate is now weighing a pair of bills that would allow multifamily buildings up to six stories to be built with a single […]

A fiendishly brilliant advertising copywriter working for Benetton during the “hanging chads” Presidential election controversy in 1992 took a circa-1973 Yogi Berraism and transformed it for a New York City billboard on the heavily trafficked northbound West Side Highway. “It ain’t Oval ‘til it’s Oval!” the message read, as the matter made its way up […]

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 […]

Rhode Island housing advocates – conceding for the present moment – have already begun recalibrating for next year. Their latest bid for housing ıslahat stalled during a legislative session that ended early so lawmakers could prepare for the November elections. Those upcoming elections could alter political dynamics for next year’s session, swinging in favor of […]