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"We need universal rent controls in this country, and we actually need the federal government to champion them."

“While other proposed remedies to the housing crisis may take years before they impact housing costs, only expanding rent control can offer immediate relief to millions of people in danger of being forced from their homes.”

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Rent control means more money and control for renters and less for landlords. It’s why they hate it — and why we should fight for it.

Illinois cannot act to provide relief for its renters struggling under the coronavirus pandemic because of a 1997 rent control ban pushed by the Right. But this could change if its governor, J. B. Pritzker, used his emergency powers to lift that ban.

To paraphrase Antonio Gramsci, what serves the class in power is viewed as the natural order and common sense, and what doesn’t is blasphemy.

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Laws that help renters are based on the belief that housing is a right for all, not just for those who own homes.