The Rise of the Bedroom Counters
Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's stories include: A new meta-analysis of rent control studies finds that caps on rents lower rents…along with housing supply and housing quality.A California program to build tiny homes for the homeless produces even tinier results.Cleveland, Ohio, is the latest city to consider a crackdown on short-term rentals.But first, our lead story about the researchers in the United Kingdom who make the audacious argument that the country doesn't need to build more housing, it just needs to redistribute its glut of spare bedrooms. How...