[YPCrumble]

Saying "7% on top of that is still a quite sizable increase" is not a fact, it's an opinion. Furthermore it's like my employer telling me "you should take this 7% raise and be happy even if the market dictates a 20% raise. It's still a quite sizable increase".

Then you make an ad-hominem argument about landlords being hypocrites which isn't relevant. Landlords act in the best interest of landlords.

I don't yet know what I think about the bill so I'm reading the HN comments to form an opinion. The points you're making aren't very convincing.

[tibbon]

It’s fair to say that 7% is faster than wages increase for many people on average. Why should my rent outpace my income?

[xxxpupugo]

> Landlords act in the best interest of landlords.

That is the point. Landlords will gather information or their side of evidence to push for their arguments, as well as ones that called for rent control.

All players are just playing our own shares in the game here. Is rent control necessarily good or bad in this particular case? Only future number can verify that. But because the landlord-just-be-landlord arguments, it is probably not good for the renters to take the other side of stories for granted.

Let the bullet fly for a moment.