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by smnrchrds 1810 days ago
In my province, landlords cannot terminate a periodic tenancy except for a small number of causes, but they are free to change the rent price to whatever they want once a year. Result: if the landlord wants you gone, they just tell you your 2k per month rent is increasing to 20k per month and voilĂ , gone!

No user protection is effective unless it comes with some sort of price cap. This is why GPL requires the source code to be made available "for a price no more than your reasonable cost of physically performing this conveying of source". Otherwise, a company could use GPL'd code in their product and say they are more than happy to give you a copy of the source code for 100 billion dollars.

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NJ statewide has is no cap on increases in rent, but there is a requirement for good cause to terminate a lease. An unconscionable or unreasonablerent increase is illegal
That's a sensible approach. My province does not have a cap, period.