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 Biden’s 5% cap on apartment rents: Washington's latest economic folly
https://mises.org/power-market/bidens-5-cap-apartment-rents-washingtons-latest-economic-folly

By Artis Shepherd
> Recently, the Biden administration introduced plans to limit increases in apartment rents to 5% annually.

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/618420 
 That's a nice way to make sure no apartments are available, or if they are, they have zero maintenance and everything is falling apart.  This all happened with rent control in NYC (among other places). 
 After causing 7%+ price increases, it's pretty rich to punish people for raising their rent by 5%.