text: How about some rent controls, specifically capping the allowable annual rent increases? Denver is a great town but I had to move away because I could no longer afford my unrenovated 1993-built Centennial apartment with increases averaging 18% every year for three years running. Allowable rent increases on existing leaseholders should be held down to something reasonable.  Barring tax increases rent should be capped at no more than the preceding years rate of inflation.