May 22, 2023
A Minnesota federal court upheld St. Paul's rent stabilization ordinance in the face of landlord litigation, citing a host of circuit court and U.S. Supreme Court rulings shielding similar rent regulations from constitutional challenges.
November 29, 2022
St. Paul, Minnesota, landlords renewed their push to upend a rent stabilization ordinance passed by voters, arguing that the regulation entirely fails to alleviate tenants' rent burdens or to increase the city's supply of affordable housing.
November 15, 2022
A Minnesota federal judge declined to let three tenant rights organizations and two renters intervene in a suit challenging St. Paul's rent stabilization law, but said the court may decide later on whether they can make an entrance at the appeals stage.
November 08, 2022
The city of St. Paul, Minnesota, urged a federal judge to uphold a rent stabilization ordinance passed by voters, arguing that a deficit of affordable housing and a mounting population of rent-burdened tenants warranted legislation capping annual rent increases.
October 21, 2022
A group of tenant rights organizations asked a Minnesota federal court Friday to let it enter two landlords' suit challenging St. Paul's rent stabilization ordinance.
October 18, 2022
Two apartment building owners seek summary judgment in their federal court case against the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, over a recently enacted rent stabilization ordinance, claiming it is unconstitutional and violates their property rights.
September 15, 2022
The city of St. Paul, Minnesota, and a pair of apartment owners are headed to summary judgment in a case that aims to block a law approved last year enacting one of the strictest rent control laws in the country.
June 17, 2022
Two apartment owners say a new rent control ordinance in St. Paul, Minnesota, that's among the strictest in the country has devalued their properties by forcing them to charge rent below market value, in a suit arguing that the new law amounts to an unconstitutional taking.