Comment by kspaans

Devil's advocate: you think your landlord should be allowed to double your rent at the end of your lease? (If they can choose to not continue the lease and evict you, I guess it's the same thing.) In Ontario, for example, there is essentially an inflation-adjusted rate that landlords are allowed to increase their rent by every year (http://www.landlordselfhelp.com/RentIncreaseGuideline.htm) without prior approval. I'm sure there are many flavours of rent control, tilting either towards landlords or tenants.