Happy Tuesday, and welcome to the latest edition of Rent Free. This week's newsletter includes stories on:
- The triumphant, albeit technical, return of missing middle housing in Arlington, Virginia
- New York's Rent Guidelines Board allows a 3 percent rent increase.
- It's not just Zohran Mamdani. In New York, everyone's a socialist on housing.
But first, this week's lead story is on California's latest effort to reform its development-killing environmental review law.