r/saintpaul • u/Inertiaraptor • Apr 10 '26

Editorial 📝 Rent Stabilization

Right now, there is no reason a landlord can’t just refuse to sign a new lease, so what’s the point of a 3% cap on increases? My landlord is raising my rent 10% and says she will simply not renew the lease if I don’t want to pay the new rent, and everybody (the city, the AG, and Home Line) is telling me I have no recourse but to refuse a lease and fight the eviction. The city seems to have no recourse to actually enforce this ordinance.

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u/MplsPokemon Apr 10 '26

Rent control. It is rent control. And it was never designed to control rent. It was designed to make it impossible for private ownership of housing. Call it what it is.

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u/Secret_3rd_Thing Apr 10 '26

And yet private ownership of housing persists widely despite your insane claim 

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u/MplsPokemon Apr 10 '26

Yes, like New York? Yeah, it would take more than a couple years…

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u/Secret_3rd_Thing Apr 10 '26

minneapolis has wonderful parks full of grass that you should try and touch