Tenant Viewpoint

• Vacancy Deregulation -- The Once and Future Onslaught
  Steven Dobkin

• A Moral Reflection On Rent Control
  John Cardinal O'Connor, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York

• Rent Regulation Deadline: Stop the Clock!
  Charles Hynes, Kings County District Attorney

• Opinion: Save the Landlords!
  Dan Meltzer, Chelsea Clinton News

• Do Rent Regulations Produce Fair Rents or Forced Subsidies
  by Timothy Collins

• Law Review: "Fair Rents" or "Forced Subsidies" Under Rent Regulation: Finding A Regulatory Taking Where Legal Fictions Collide
  by Timothy Collins

• Perspectives on Urstadt and Evictions
  by George S. Locker

• Rent Destabilization Study II
  An Analysis of the Fairness to Landlords of Rent Increases Granted by the Rent Guidelines Board for Stabilized Apartments by Mark Green, Public Advocate for the City of New York
  Also in PDF format

• Dispelling Disinformation About Rent Controls (updated 5/5/97)
  by Timothy Collins

• Statements from Ruth Messinger
  Manhattan Borough President

• A Real Look at Rent Control
  Dollars & Sense, January 1986

• Rent Control at 50, Still Stirs Controversy: The Defense
  New York Times, March 21, 1993 by Peter Marcuse

• Luxury Deregulation: A Boon For Landlords
  New York Law Journal, March 11, 1996 by Samuel J. Himmelstein

• NYC Public Advocate Mark Green to Gov. Pataki and Sen. D'Amato
  

• Rent Regulation in New York City: A Briefing Book
  by September Jarrett, 1993 and a little dated, but an excellent overview by CTRC

Landlord Viewpoint

• Effect of Deregulation on Rents and Economic Activity in NYC -- from the landlords point of view, this study paid for by the Rent Stabilization Association (RSA), the landlord trade group, shows rents could rise up to 51% in certain NYC neighborhoods if rent laws expire.

• How Rent Control Drives Out Affordable Housing
  by William Tucker, well-known right-wing writer and Cato Institute, free market fanatics

• Strange Bedfellows
  by Jacob Weisberg, Slate Magazine. Thanks to Bill Gates, tenants are now Marxists

• New York's Housing Market: Rent Asunder
  The Economist Newspaper Limited

• Welfare for the Rich
  Daily Outrage -- better than Rush L.

• The Freedom Party (The Slumlord & The Evils of Rent Control) -- "The slumlord does make a positive contribution to society; without him, the economy would be worse off."

Somewhere In-between

• Rent Deregulation in California and Massachusetts: Politics, Policy, and Impacts
  Peter Dreier, International and Public Affairs Center, Occidental College. For the Housing '97 Conference

• 50 Years of Rent Regulation
  a Dog 'n Pony show by DHCR to try to make former Governer Cuomo look good in 1994; nevertheless contains good information on the history and operation of the rent regulatory system

• Bleak House: DHCR at the Crossroads
  findings and Recommendations of the Joint Assembly Committees' Investigation of Rent Administration in New York State
  In 1987 when a few politicians had something called courage, this report on DHCR showed some of the real problems with the rent regulatory system. Since then DHCR has gotten five times as bad in pandering to landlords

• Housing Vacancy Survey
  U.S. Census Bureau survey of the NYC housing market showing the state of the City's housing stock, residential population, and other housing-related issues and trends.

• Housing Conditions and Problems In New York City:
  An Analysis of the 1996 Housing and Vacancy Survey
  New York University School of Law, Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy

• Housing NYC: Rents, Markets and Trends '97 (preliminary, also see 94-96 reports)
  
• Who Lives in Rent Stabilized Housing (acrobat)
  
• State of the Rental Market 1996
  
• Is Net Operating Income Rising in Rental Housing?
  reports by the Rent Guidelines Board