Important context: This paper is from 2023. In 2025, St. Paul massively rolled back rent control restrictions.

Their rent control used to have no exemptions, but now it's become very similar to SF rent control. Strict limit on how much rent can go up for current tenants, but can reset close to market rate when there's a 'just cause' vacancy. And all buildings built after X date are exempt entirely. (X=2004 in St. Paul, X=1979 in SF). Developers argued that any rent control at all limited their ability to finance housing projects.

I think results of studies like this were hugely influential to the changes in rent control that followed.

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rtpg 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> but can reset close to market rate when there's a 'just cause' vacancy.

Unfortunate policy, and generating weird incentives to get people to leave!

In Queensland (not exactly perfectly managing the rental crisis but...) their policies include not being able to raise rent more than once every 12 months (leases tend to be 12 months). Importantly it's linked to the property, not the tenants.

There's no actual cap in practice on how much you can raise it by ("reasonable" I believe is the nonfalsifiable term used) but it doesn't generate perverse incentives to kick people out

	▲	varenc 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That was the argument around the original 2021 rent control law! It had zero exemptions to avoid perverse incentivizes like that one. But it didn't last.