1. The new owners, familiar with his situation, froze his rent and agreed to let him live there until he dies. 2. However, the Hong Kong Housing Authority announced that it was freezing rents on commercial establishments in public buildings. 3. Office owners, by contrast, are locked into leases that can freeze rents until they expire. 4. Rents were frozen. 5. Subleases became highly profitable for the primary tenants because they could charge as much as they liked while their own low rents were frozen. 6. The program, the Senior Citizens Rent Increase Exemption, or SCRIE, permanently freezes the rent of some poor, elderly people. 7. The rent act froze rents at pre-WW II levels. 8. Seven members of the Palestinian legislative council elected in January called on Arab landlords in east Jerusalem on Sunday to freeze rents for three years. |