One-year rent freeze could lead to higher rents further ahead
While a one-year rent freeze would temporarily suppress rents for households currently in rental contracts, a further squeeze of landlords’ possible returns risks exacerbating the already tight supply of rental properties. In turn, that could push up rents, both for newly agreed contracts and rents for all contracts after the freeze, by more than otherwise.
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