[heyoni]

Yea but moving as an individual is stressful and 10x moreso for families. We’re trying to keep people off the streets and from having to make bad decisions without hurting the landlords ability to capitalize on their investment. This is a compromise.

[mratzloff]

Not to mention a sudden, unexpected expense in a situation where renters are on a tight budget and likely don't have much or any savings.

[heyoni]

That’s it. That’s all this is. The law is just regulating shitty behavior. But you always have those who say “well I can legally raise blah and if I don’t less money.”

Well now they can’t. Good. We’ve made it slightly hard to be a major cunt.

[thaumasiotes]

It's interesting to compare what happened under rent control in medieval Europe. Under the feudal system, land rents were permanently fixed. They could never increase or decrease by any amount. This had the advantage that everyone knew what they were.

...sort of. What actually happened was that lords meddled with the size of units. The dues for a plot of land may be fixed at 3 bushels of grain, but if you can make the bushel bigger you can pass a rent increase anyway. So a major concern of European peasant movements was stable and uniform units.

[nostrebored]

What are you talking about... One of the nicest things about being a renter is being able to choose to live in a place where you can get those savings.

[mratzloff]

Spoken as if many people have a true choice about whether or not to rent.