St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter’s promise to make rent cap measure ‘better, quickly’ is legally murky

Twin Cities Pioneer Press

‘Substantive’ changes in first year unlikely if St. Paul voters approve rent control policy

Star Tribune

The St. Paul City Council likely won’t be able to make any “substantive” changes to a citywide rent control policy in the first year if voters approve it Tuesday, according to the City Attorney’s Office.

St. Paul voters could pass one of the country’s most stringent rent control policies

Minnesota Reformer

Rent control is not a solution to St. Paul’s housing shortage

Twin Cities Pioneer Press

As anyone who has shopped for housing in St. Paul knows, prices are up, and supply is down. Significantly. What does this have to do with the rent-control ballot initiative on the St. Paul ballot Nov. 2? Simple: The proposed rent control initiative, if passed, will make our city’s housing availability problems worse.

St. Paul rent control measure on Nov. 2 ballot brings out hopes, fears on all sides

Twin Cities Pioneer Press

“Yes, indeed there is a housing affordability problem that we’re facing. It’s a real problem. But this is the wrong solution,” said committee chair Cecil Smith, president of the Multi Housing Association, in an interview.

Q&A: Ryan exec weighs in on supply issues, key sectors

Finance & Commerce

New Ryan President, Mike Ryan says – rent control could “really slow down Highland Bridge” project

Star Tribune Editorial: Reject efforts to add rent control

Star Tribune

St. Paul's proposal would flirt with long-recognized domino effects, and a ballot question in Minneapolis opens the door for the same.

Local 49 Supports Committee to Educate Voters on Negative Impacts of Rent Control

IUOE Local 49

A broad coalition of civic and housing leaders has launched efforts in St. Paul and Minneapolis to educate voters and defeat rent control ballot initiatives which, if passed, would result in less investment in housing and fewer available housing units in both cities, further exacerbating the current housing supply shortage.

With rent control questions on Minneapolis and St. Paul ballots, both sides share impacts

WCCO

It’s less than a month before elections in Minneapolis and St. Paul and the groups opposed to the rent control question in both cities are speaking out.

Twin Cities landlords to voters: Just say ‘no’ to rent control

Star Tribune

Twin Cities landlords and property managers are urging Minneapolis and St. Paul voters to reject rent control proposals on the ballot this fall, saying the measures would decimate an already tight housing market.

Landlords, realtors and carpenters launch anti-rent control campaign in Twin Cities

Minnesota Reformer

Groups representing landlords, realtors and union laborers urged voters in Minneapolis and St. Paul to reject rent control ballot initiatives, saying they will hamstring development amid an ongoing housing shortage.

Let’s not relive the rent control nightmare others endured

Star Tribune

Vote "no" on rent control in St. Paul.

Housing Experts Debate Twin Cities Rent Control Vote This Fall

CBS Minnesota

Residents on both sides of the Mississippi River will vote on rent control measures this fall. St. Paul voters will decide whether rent increases should be capped at 3%, while Minneapolis citizens will decide if the City Council should have the power to cap.

If you think property taxes are high now …

Star Tribune

Just wait until rent control makes everything "affordable."

At least 4 of 7 St. Paul City Council members to vote ‘no’ on rent control; mayor tight-lipped

Twin Cities Pioneer Press

At St. Paul City Hall, at least four of the seven city council members plan to vote against a ballot measure that would cap rent increases at 3 percent annually. The mayor, who has shown no great enthusiasm for the proposal, has yet to officially take sides.

St. Paul rent-control ballot initiative: How would it work?

Twin Cities Pioneer Press

On Nov. 2, St. Paul voters will determine whether to enact a new “rent stabilization” mandate that caps annual rent increases at 3 percent. Here are the details:

If approved by voters, St. Paul’s rent control ordinance would be among the strictest in the world

MinnPost

The proposed ordinance lacks many of the exemptions that are common in other places that have rent stabilization, and that may have bad effects on St. Paul’s future housing supply.

Here’s the rent control question St. Paul will vote on this fall

Minnesota Reformer

The St. Paul City Council unanimously approved the rent control ballot language that will be put to voters this November. If passed, the measure would institute one of the country’s most rigorous rent stabilization policies and the state’s first.

The push for rent control in St. Paul, explained

MinnPost

What a proposed ballot measure says, what it would do, and what advocates and opponents say it could mean for the city.

Rent control is always popular, but it never works

Star Tribune

There's never been much enthusiasm among mainstream economic thinkers for having the government hold down apartment rents through rent controls, an issue that voters in St. Paul may soon confront.