MEXICO CITY (AP) — The legislature of Mexico City approved the most ambitious rent control law since the 1940s Thursday, limiting rent increases to the rate of inflation in the previous year.
Rents in the vast city of 9 million inhabitants were essentially frozen in the 1940s, and remained so for decades on older buildings.
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