We are seeing real political momentum behind the policy of rent control and tenant protections more broadly,” says Sarah Treuhaft, managing director at PolicyLink, which, with the Center for Popular Democracy and the Right to the City Alliance, produced a 50-page report, “Our Homes, Our Future,” that was released in February. It supports nationwide rent control and highlights campaigns for rent control policies in Oregon, California, Illinois, Colorado and New York, among other places. “I think that’s real. I think that the depth of the crisis has a lot to do with it.

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