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Oklahoma renters, apartment owners sound off on President Biden's rent control plan
John Doyle's friends call him "Radar," but he didn't see the scooter wreck coming in April that threw him to the ground, sent hospital bills to the sky, had him desperately asking for help with a GoFundMe page, and almost got him evicted from his apartment for back rent, which was already headed up − again.
Doyle, 61, who lost his job as a DoorDash delivery driver because of the wreck, got lucky. Donations helped get him through the worst, and the income from a new job as a night auditor for Champion Hotels helped him work with his landlord to get the eviction case dismissed and a new one-year lease, with raised rent.
But the ordeal has left him, like a lot of Oklahoma City area renters, wondering if and how President Joe Biden's proposed cap on rent increases might ease the region's worsening affordability crisis. The plan, if approved by Congress, would cap annual rent increases at 5% for "corporate landlords," those with 50 units or more. Those who don't comply would lose federal tax breaks based on property depreciation.
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