In the wake of double-digit apartment annual rent increases and the cost of houses increasingly out of reach for people, a number of states have proposed rent control on housing, as the National Multifamily Housing Council recently noted. Florida, Illinois, Maryland, and Kentucky are among these states. 

"Legislation in Illinois, Maryland and Kentucky, which would have either capped rents or revoked statewide rent control preemption, failed to advance out of committee," the NMHC wrote.

Florida had seen the filing of a measure to revoke statewide preemption, which would eliminate restrictions on statewide rent control. "Of concern, however, is activity at the municipal level," the organization writes. "While Florida preempts rent control statewide, municipalities may enact rent control for one year if both: the municipality declares a "housing emergency;" and voters then pass a ballot referendum on rent control."