[xyzzyz]

Yes, but the point is that the tenant doesn’t want to break the lease then, but the landlord does. 12 month leases protect the tenant from rent hikes as much as they protect the landlord from losing a tenant. If legislating easy breaking of the leases results in removing landlord protection, the landlords will stop offering 12 month leases as they confer no benefit to them, and will only offer month to month lease. Then, you’ll be able to break lease easily too, but so will the landlord be able to kick you out on the month notice.

[Robin_Message]

In the UK, all leases are legally for at least 6 months; 12 months obviously is common.

So you could combine that with Oregon law. Or use the German system someone mentioned.

Basically anything but the unfettered free market is going for home tenancy, given the obvious and large power imbalance between renters and landlords.