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"price gouging" is not the same as price-fixing. Price gouging refers to raising prices in response to natural disasters: https://www.cato.org/blog/anti-price-g
by Manuel_D 2y ago
"price gouging" is not the same as price-fixing. Price gouging refers to raising prices in response to natural disasters: https://www.cato.org/blog/anti-price-gouging-laws-entrench-shortages https://www.cato.org/blog/anti-price-gouging-laws-entrench-s...
> Texas’s APGL kicks in when a disaster is declared by the governor or the country’s president. Under the law, merchants are not allowed to sell or lease fuel, food, medicine, lodging, building materials, construction tools, or other necessities at “exorbitant” or “excessive” prices, with those caught facing civil penalties of up to $10,000 per violation, rising to $250,000 if elderly consumers are affected.
There's very specific, and very short-term windows in which prices cannot be raise excessively. It's not even remotely comparable to price controls on rents.
- orwin 2y agoIt's called 'dynamic price control' and is present in most cities in my country. My landlord cannot rise the rent at weird levels, which is based on the selling cost of the unit. Basically if her unit appreciate 5% yoy, she won't be able to rise the rent higher than 5% yoy.
- Manuel_D 2y agoSo it's exactly the same thing as SF rent control, albeit with a higher allowable year-over-year increase. There's nothing "dynamic" about it, it's just textbook rent control.
- vundercind 2y agoReads to me like the rate’s dynamic because it’s indexed to something else (potential sale price) that floats freely, rather than being a fixed value.