Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Price gouging" in English language version.
As such, Microsoft fails to meet the traditional standards of a coercive monopoly, i.e., one that price-gouges consumers by deliberately curtailing production. If there was a reason to justify trust-busting a hundred years ago under the Sherman anti-trust act, this was it.
...Shane Phillips, manager of the Randall Lewis Housing Initiative at the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. He estimated that potential landlords could be holding back "in the high hundreds to the low thousands" of homes due to the price limitations on new listings. That amount is too small to affect L.A.'s overall rental market but does make it harder for displaced people to find houses, he said. "Every home does count," Phillips said. "It does matter. And no matter how fancy it is, someone from the Palisades can afford it."
It caps annual rent increases at 10 percent along with some additional tenant protections. The cap also applies to hotel rooms, food, fuel, medicine and other essential supplies during a declared emergency.
