Love how landlords would rather have a flat be unused for months and years, rather than lowering the rent, and actually making it affordable.

#rent #rentprices

Stateline: Cities lead bans on algorithmic rent hikes as states lag behind. “Minneapolis on Thursday has become the fourth U.S. city to ban algorithmic rental price-fixing software, joining San Francisco, Philadelphia and Berkeley, California, in a growing wave of legislation aimed to protect renters from rental price-gouging. While momentum builds at the city level — with Portland, Oregon; […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/01/stateline-cities-lead-bans-on-algorithmic-rent-hikes-as-states-lag-behind/

#TheGuardian |14-5 -24|

"Exclusive: Report recommends ‘double lock’ for those renewing their tenancies"

"This would guarantee that any rise is capped at either consumer price inflation or local wage growth – whichever is lower – across England and Wales."

"Tom Darling, of the Renters’ Reform Coalition, said: “These appear to be a commonsense set of proposals for reforming the private rented sector."

#Renters #HousingCrisis #RentPrices #huurders #wooncrisis #huurprijs

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/13/cap-rent-rises-england-wales-labour-report-cowan-evictions

#TheOlivePress | 06-05-2024 |

New Class Divide emerges in Spain: Landlords earn more than double their tenants thanks to rising rent prices, figures show

“Policies designed to reduce rent prices by adjusting them in accordance with renter income so that they can meet their basic needs, could help to rebalance the severe inequality this study highlights,” the researchers summarised.

#renters #housing #HousingCrisis #Landlordism #RentPrices #Spain #huurders #wooncrisis

https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2024/05/06/new-class-divide-emerges-in-spain-landlords-earn-more-than-double-their-tenants-thanks-to-rising-rent-prices-figures-reveal/

Yellen says high food and rent prices key factors in voters' negative economic outlook

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/20/yellen-food-rent-inflation-key-factors-in-voters-negative-economic-outlook.html

#Yellen #FoodPrices #RentPrices #VotersOutlook #NegativeEconomy #Inflation #Politics #News

O' rent prices so swift and so high
You're making our pockets run dry
Though car prices have dipped
It's not a big flip
For inflation still plagues us no lie

#inflation #rentprices #economy #ode #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/01/12/business/december-cpi-inflation-report/takeaways-from-the-latest-inflation-report