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		PhoenixReborn on March 27, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too It doesn't seem too circular to me. Rent control keeps your rent low despite rising rents around you. So in the case of the OP's friend, her rent is now vastly below market. In a non rent-controlled world she would absolutely have been forced to move earlier due to rising rents.

bigmanwalter on March 27, 2019 | [–]

Some rent control schemes keep all rents low. In Montreal, the government limits all rent increases to 1% per year. Even between tenants.

philipov on March 27, 2019 | [–]

If she can't afford to move anywhere today, wouldn't that make her homeless without rent control?

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