NYT article comparing Boston post-rent-control and New York City: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/nyregion/when-rent-control-just-vanishes-both-sides-of-deba

NYT article comparing Boston post-rent-control and New York City: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/nyregion/when-rent-control-just-vanishes-both-sides-of-debate-cite-boston-s-example.html http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/nyregion/when-rent-control... One of the big complaints about "increasing rents" is more of the matter that low-income rental stock is almost never built, whereas luxury apartments are built constantly (though they have to provide a number of low-income units that are the same quality as everything else in the building). The low-income stock still exists, it's just the most sought after rental stock in the Boston market.