Should the government implement rent control policies to limit the amount landlords can charge for rent?

To a degree. They need to ensure that the renter not only gets their money back but ensure that they also pocket money for expenses as well as income.

No, low income housing should reflect a profit motive and the government should have a permanent cap on real estate taxes.

Regulation and government control are factors causing rent to be so high. We need to break monopolies over housing and apartments. We need to emphasize and encourage home ownership and provide resources to enable home ownership.

Yes if people are buying multiple houses for rental properties. large apartment complexes for low income and middle income should be priced accordingly to local area minimum wage, health care, and taxes. not to exceed 40% of the average income in those brackets. and incentives for those complexes who are below the rate in order to allow upkeep.

Yes, and the government should implement more policies which make being a residential landlord undesirable.

For 1. If they own the property its none of the government's business and 2. That should only apply to subsidized housing.

No, but they should regulate the amount of realty corporations can own or at least create penalties for properties not primarily lived in by one's self.

With wages having no increase but the economy increasing everyday, rent should be significally lowered than what it is today.

The government should handle inflation first. No one would have to increase rent if the government had a handle on inflation.

Yes, but being in alignment with inflation and wages, so it's not unaffordable, but also represents the quality of the housing.

No, once rent increases higher than mortgages, people will start buying houses instead. People will no longer rent if prices are higher than buying.

Affordable housing should be a right and policies that support more housing being built should be implemented

No. The market should decide. The government should only be policing collusion and other obviously discriminatory practices.

Yes, and it should be made illegal for corporations and private investment companies from owning and renting single family homes.

Not necessarily a law would be required, but incentivizing growth in the state or city to have affordable apartments and not allowing companies to purchase all houses and making them for rent.

I think they should, but it should be in regard with inflation. It should affordable for most Americans within the state of the economy.

yes and have someone have yearly check ups to make sure the rent is fair by the quality the place of living is

Yes, but this needs to be accompanied by policies that incentivize new housing projects, particularly high-density housing.

This problem is more complicated than that. Market forces might correct this problem if we can fix the system

Yes, in more densely populated areas there should be some form of rent control either by limiting the number of homes that can be owned by one party or outright rent control.

Complicated. I think they shouldn't be able to charge crazy high rents but we shouldn't entirely regulate it

Yes, but any rent control legislation must allow for increasing materials and labor costs and a reasonable profit for the landlord.

Yes, and expropriate their excess properties, ban ownership of more than two homes, and develop tenant owned housing cooperatives

I'd rather have the government fund quality and affordable housing in order to compete with and eventually eliminate the need for landlords. This all must serve as a stepping stone towards the de-commodification of housing.

I think they should limit the amount to a certain amount overall but, only do so depending on the state/ area

No. Build government owned rental units and base rent as 30 percent of income. This will drive down private property prices.

They shouldn't be allowed to raise the rent to current tenants and they can't make a tenant leave so they can charge more

I do think rent is out of control right now, but if you add a limit, landlords won't be able to make savings which will only keep the money at that limit. In theory, without a limit eventually the rent will go down, but if that is not reality then a limit must be implaced.

There should be some programs for alot of homeless people who lived their jobs and wasn't able to feed the kids and pets. There should be limts for housing.

yes, but only the state gives the highest amount, and local governments give the more constrictive amounts, ie. lower amounts

This should be based on the rate of fair market value of the surrounding properties, if implemented.

leave it up to the states, as housing is different in every state and town. For example, some college towns have either very poor quality affordable housing or no affordable housing, but this doesn’t impact every state in the same way.

For me I would answer this with a yes and a no. From a tenant's standpoint we probably could benefit from this if the rent control caused the amount of rent to be less than what we are currently paying now. From a landlord's standpoint, it would not be fair because how can anyone tell them what their property may be worth monthly. I'm 50/50 with this question

It is my opinion that the government should implement rent control policies to limit the amount landlords can charge for rent.

Can only at max double the actual bills for the consumer so if the actual bills with taxes are $750 p/mo for 1700 sqft then the rent can only be $1500 after taxes as the absolute max.

step 1: make it illegal for powerful rich corporations from mass buying houses and holding them to raise prices. step 2: incentivize more affordable housing step 3: incentivize the building of more housing

No, the current issues with housing prices is due to a lack of supply. Enact policy that encourages housing development and the market will correct itself.

Landlords should not be able to overcharge tenants Charging according to the growing inflation makes sense but over charging doesn’t is not helpful and makes tenants homeless when they can’t afford it anymore

No, but there should be checks to make sure maintenance and upgrade costs correlate to the increase in rent.

Limit rent increases to the national inflation rate. Seize all housing from private equity firms and redistribute it to the public. Ban public and private speculation on housing.

No, but they should be required to show their tenant exactly how much of their rent amount is going towards the mortgage of the building, upkeep/maintenance, taxes, and other expenses of the building/complex (like paying the office workers) and how much of it they're pocketing.

Yes, it should be regulated by placing a limit on how high it can be and be based off of state income

Yes, as long as the landlord is still able to earn a profit on their properties, cover property maintenance, and are able to easily evict tenants that damage property or are not making rent payments.

Rent control does not create reliably helpful outcomes. This question is too market specific to be at all relevant to ask here.

I think yes because sometimes they charge to much for something that is not worth to being rented for.

I would like for something to be done, preferably a Georgian single land tax, possibly in addition to other measures like the rent caps depending on economic background, maybe?

Yes, and prohibit ownership of over three homes at any one time by any individual or for-profit entity.

Only in areas where rents are inflated, like NY, LA, SF, … if a city has limited space and too many people, the rents have to be controlled

No. Price fixing any product or service only leads to artificial scarcity and disincentivizes private industry from investing in a real solution.