1.   How can they justify such big rent increases?

2.   The rent increases will leave us worse off.

3.   The meeting came on the same day the latest casualty of the rent increases left his pub.

4.   What is the rent increase this year?

5.   The rent increase this year is an average of seven pounds a week.

6.   Also helping is a strong economy, which has filled buildings at a record pace and is allowing landlords to push through generous rent increases.

7.   Although several large cities in other states have statutes that cap rent increases, Georgia law prevents local governments from establishing rent controls.

8.   And for the first time in years, developers are optimistic that rent increases will accelerate and occupancy rates will rise.

9.   And they claim that the commission deliberately misrepresented its own findings on rent increases.