The base minimum rent was up 3% from a year earlier.

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Price floors like minimum wages and price ceilings like rent control hurt precisely the people they are allegedly enacted to help.

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We still have a minimum wage and New York still has rent controls.

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One of the main reasons for this is that after paying the minimum required monthly amount I still have other expenses in the form of rent, a car payment, utilities, grocery, health expenses, and phone, not to mention gas expenses that are continuing to climb.

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My loan companies want more then minimum and threaten to take my car, I work two jobs to pay my rent and car and bills, and with them small amount of money I have at the end of it all, my loan companies are pursuing it all.

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When are we going to get a change in the law so that rent-paying, law-abiding tenants get reasonable notice following repossession (e.g. a minimum of 2 months notice, the same as under Section 21 of the Housing Act 1988)?

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