Talk:Rent control in the United States

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On 21 July 2025, it was proposed that this article be moved to Rent regulation in the United States. The result of the discussion was not moved.

Requested move 21 July 2025

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jeffrey34555 (talk) 00:42, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Rent control in the United States → Rent regulation in the United States – Change name to match the main article, rent regulation, as well as other articles such as Rent regulation in New York. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 08:01, 21 July 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. TarnishedPath^talk 08:27, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose. The choice to use either "rent regulation" or "rent control" appears to be a WP:ENGVAR/WP:TIES issue, because we currently have article titles like Rent control in British Columbia and Rent control in Scotland whose variety of English do not the "match the main article". And while the State of New York may call it "rent regulation", it appears that other U.S. states call it "rent control", like Rent control in Massachusetts and Rent control in California. So I'd prefer to WP:RETAIN the status quo here. Zzyzx11 (talk) 17:06, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Bohemian Baltimore Oppose per Zzyzx11's reason. LoomCreek (talk) 20:52, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose - It's widely called rent control in English and you can see that from the sources; several dozen of the best sources call it "rent control" while only a single source uses "rent regulation." The former absolutely swamps the latter in ngrams and in something like Google Trends. If we felt a compelling need to force consistency here (I don't), I would argue it ought to be in the opposite direction. CoffeeCrumbs (talk) 21:37, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject Housing and Tenant Rights and WikiProject Urban studies and planning have been notified of this discussion. TarnishedPath^talk 08:26, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisting comment: This is looking like it will not be moved. Relisting to see if there will be further input. TarnishedPath^talk 08:27, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose per CoffeeCrumbs. --Slugger O'Toole (talk) 13:37, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.