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This seems excessively prescriptive. If we're using Wikipedia as the referee today, this is what it says: > Rent control is part of a system of rent regulatio

This seems excessively prescriptive. If we're using Wikipedia as the referee today, this is what it says: > Rent control is part of a system of rent regulation that limits the changes that can be made in the price of renting a house or other real property. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_control_(disambiguation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_control_(disambiguation) What you describe, and what Argentina had, is fairly clearly a limit on the changes that can be made in the price of renting. Requiring a certain term of lease, and prohibiting a lease which allows, for example, adjusting the monthly rate to match inflation, are both limitations which fairly belong in this category. You've accused Reason of dishonesty here, I don't think that's accurate. You might prefer the phrase to be used in some more restrictive or definite sense, but they describe the law in the second paragraph: > The 2020 Rental Law, enacted under former President Alberto Fernández, aimed to protect tenants. It mandated three-year lease terms and required rent to be paid in pesos—a currency rapidly losing value due to rampant inflation. Rent adjustments were limited to once a year, based on a central bank rate that factored in inflation and wage growth. The law also allowed tenants to dictate the conditions for lease termination. Is any of this wrong?

kragen 2y ago
yes, that paragraph you quoted from the article is correct, but it omits to mention that there is no limit to how much the landlord can raise the rent when the three years are up an employee who coaches his kid's soccer team on weekends isn't a 'whistleblower' even though he blows a whistle, a barium getter isn't a 'vacuum cleaner' even though it cleans a vacuum, and things like a three-year lease aren't 'rent control' even though they control the rent you already know this, since you're a native english speaker, but i'm commenting to keep you from confusing people who might not be

kragen 2y ago

yes, that paragraph you quoted from the article is correct, but it omits to mention that there is no limit to how much the landlord can raise the rent when the three years are up an employee who coaches his kid's soccer team on weekends isn't a 'whistleblower' even though he blows a whistle, a barium getter isn't a 'vacuum cleaner' even though it cleans a vacuum, and things like a three-year lease aren't 'rent control' even though they control the rent you already know this, since you're a native english speaker, but i'm commenting to keep you from confusing people who might not be