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rtpgtoday at 4:26 AM1 replyview on HN

> but can reset close to market rate when there's a 'just cause' vacancy.

Unfortunate policy, and generating weird incentives to get people to leave!

In Queensland (not exactly perfectly managing the rental crisis but...) their policies include not being able to raise rent more than once every 12 months (leases tend to be 12 months). Importantly it's linked to the property, not the tenants.

There's no actual cap in practice on how much you can raise it by ("reasonable" I believe is the nonfalsifiable term used) but it doesn't generate perverse incentives to kick people out


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varenctoday at 5:22 AM

That was the argument around the original 2021 rent control law! It had zero exemptions to avoid perverse incentivizes like that one. But it didn't last.