On thursday, january twenty-first, the senate housing and local government committee convened to discuss senate bill fifty one thirty nine, a bill that prohibits landlords from imposing rent increases within the first six months after the eviction moratorium is lifted in march. After the six-month period, landlords would also be limited to charging any rent increases more than three percent above last year’s consumer price index rate; and that any rent increases should be based on the base monthly rent as of march first.
