rent-controlled
Adjective
Meaning
rent-controlled (not comparable)
Subject to rent control.
Examples
Raman has vowed to seek a temporary rent freeze on rent-controlled apartments and challenge city laws that restrict where homeless Angelenos can sleep or store their belongings.
The impact is that families living in rent-controlled or low-rent areas are displaced.
This action follows a June 29 by the 1921 Walnut Street Association members, who are trying to keep their rent-controlled apartments from suspected demolition.
While prices of many rent-controlled apartments remain essentially frozen at 1970s levels, property taxes and utility costs have not, Mr. Martin said.
Proponents of the tax hoped it would keep speculators from flipping apartment buildings, especially rent-controlled units that are part of the shrinking affordable housing supply in San Francisco.
What about folks who moved into rent-controlled units recently -- after the freeze was over?