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Re:California Approves Statewide Rent Control by bsder on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @09:06PM (#20946556)
> they are now advising a default annual increase of the maximum allowed (7 percent before inflation).

7 percent is a pretty high allowed increase. I suspect that it really doesn't do much except stop gouging in the case of someone who had really cheap rent in a place that gentrified suddenly.

Re:California Approves Statewide Rent Control by MagnumPIG on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @10:23PM (#20947177)
Agreed, here in Montreal it's something like 2%.