Balancing Rent Control and Property RightsAcross major European cities, the housing crisis has moved from warning signs to full-scale emergency. How far can states go in regulating the rental market without infringing upon landlords’ constitutional property rights? Tenancy law, it held, falls under the concurrent legislative power of the federal government, which had already enacted national rent control rules. Italy’s court lets property set the boundariesIn Italy, the Corte Costituzionale has long treated rent control as a site of normative tension between property rights and social goals. Property rights as a constitutional brake on rent controlDespite differences in legal tradition, European constitutional courts show a clear pattern when reviewing rent control laws.