21.   But people who live in a sprawling mobile-home park around the cove say rent increases and sewage spills are making it anything but paradise.

22.   Critics fear the changes, especially those allowing locally set rent increases, could increase homelessness.

23.   Current laws place strict limits on rent increases for vacated units, but landlords contend those restrictions must be lifted to end huge price disparities in the market.

24.   Forstadt complained that the rent increases were excessive but said the Sidewalk Association had little choice but to accept the terms.

25.   Her landlord has offered to replace her floor as long as he also gets a rent increase.

26.   In years past, the New York City Rent Guidelines Board, and corresponding agencies in the suburban counties, set the allowable rent increases for regulated apartments.

27.   Instead, they will have to rely more on rent increases for their earnings growth, analysts said.

28.   Low-income tenants are sure to attack the new approach as unfair, while landlords of more expensive apartments are also likely to be unhappy settling for smaller rent increases.

29.   Manufacturers say rent increases are making it increasingly hard to do business.

30.   McGrath said friendly persuasion might encourage the building owners to lower the rent increase.