rent increases are arbitrary acts of random theft. if we acknowledge that rent should be 30% of income, at most, capping rent increases to 30% of average income is a perfectly reasonable way to prevent landowners from fucking people over.

i don't care if it eliminates profitability for rentiers. actually, i do - that would be a good thing because it would make it easier for a co-operative model to be normalized.

http://libcom.org/blog/wave-housing-occupations-bologna-19112013