Unmentioned in the press release is the fate of one of the most problematic proposals, scrapping the rent registration system. Now, annual rent registration is required in part to protect tenants against overcharges. Drafts of the amendments proposed replacing registration with a system that would rely on the amount the landlord actually charged four years before the complaint was filed regardless of what the registered rent was. If a tenant had mistakenly agreed to illegally high rents, that would then be designated the legal rent. And in apartments that had been vacant four years before a complaint was filed, landlords could essentially make up rents.
Advocates presume the registration system has in fact been ditched.
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