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GREENS HAMMERED OVER RENT CONTROL

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In its latest attempts to push rent controls on to landlords, the Greens want rent increases limited to 3 per cent a year.

However, economists across the country are unanimous in their opinion rent controls are bad. Rent control in their eyes is just a form of price control, and they have failed in almost every country that has tried them.

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