Below you will find example sentences with "rent control". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Rent Control in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: rent
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 21
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 25.4 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 7 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "rent control" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as bring back rent control on units, by statewide rent control protections, city, laws and now stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with disease control, control protocol, gun control and rent increases, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with rent control
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Letter to the editor: Rent control? (6 words)
According to some commentators, rent control is like holding a tiger by the tail. (14 words)
Communities without their own rent control laws will now be covered by statewide rent control protections. (16 words)
It has also asked the province to bring back rent control on units first occupied after Nov. 15, 2018, and vacancy control in a bid to preserve privately-owned affordable rental homes and lower the incentive for landlords to evict tenants illegitimately. (42 words)
The building fell within New York City rent control policies that made it extremely cheap; it was only about four hundred dollars a month until 1981 when the rent control rules changed, doubling the rent overnight. (36 words)
Unless you live in one of 15 cities with rent control, there’s absolutely no protection afforded to you if your landlord wants to raise your rent by 50, 100% or kick you out altogether. (35 words)
Letter to the editor: Rent control? (6 words)
Example sentences (20)
The building fell within New York City rent control policies that made it extremely cheap; it was only about four hundred dollars a month until 1981 when the rent control rules changed, doubling the rent overnight.
An unprecedented era of skyrocketing housing costs and the reintroduction of rent control measures has reignited discussion surrounding the rent control prohibition and housing costs.
Communities without their own rent control laws will now be covered by statewide rent control protections.
Nor have I ever seen the headline “Rent Control Working;” it is stories of evictions outside rent control that make news.
Josh Butler, organizer for the Rent Control Coalition Now Coalition, says renters face big challenges in cities such as Long Beach, where there is no rent control.
As Megan King reports, rent control, the rent cap and a ban on fixed-term leases are on the table.
Owners complain restrictive rent control laws mean some long-term tenants pay legacy rent fees far lower than market rates, so they do not have the funds to invest in repairs.
Something needs to be done — perhaps enact a rent control bylaw to have caps on the amount being charged for rent.
Unless you live in one of 15 cities with rent control, there’s absolutely no protection afforded to you if your landlord wants to raise your rent by 50, 100% or kick you out altogether.
Right now, in the state of Colorado, state preemption laws make it so that we cannot have any rent control laws at all, so that the rent is purely based on market.
The path to rent control wasn’t smooth – early attempts to impose rent controls were blocked by the California Landlord Association.
It has also asked the province to bring back rent control on units first occupied after Nov. 15, 2018, and vacancy control in a bid to preserve privately-owned affordable rental homes and lower the incentive for landlords to evict tenants illegitimately.
New York City rent control is under control of the state legislature, which is bad news for tenants.
According to some commentators, rent control is like holding a tiger by the tail.
A divided Minneapolis City Council on Thursday voted to move ahead with putting a rent control policy to the city's voters in November — hours before Mayor Jacob Frey said he'll veto it.
Any apartment, house, condo, basement or mobile home that someone has lived in since before Nov. 15, 2018 is covered by rent control.
A similar situation in Kern is the city of Delano, with a populace of 55,000, where officials are hesitant to consider its own rent control ordinance after repeated protests by residents.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and the City Council have been seeking approval from state lawmakers to bring rent control back to the capital city.
In November, Portland voters soundly rejected Question A, a referendum that would have exempted anyone with nine or fewer rental units in the city from the rent control ordinance.
Letter to the editor: Rent control?