The rent-control bill was scarcely law before landlords pounced. Many a hotel promptly changed its permanent guests to steep transient rates. In Atlanta, one hotel slipped notices under the door at midnight June 30, ordering long-term tenants to vacate by midnight July 1 unless they paid by the day. Typical rate: a single room was upped from $82.50 a month to $7.50 a day ($225 a month).
In Chicago one hotel raised permanent guests from $70 to $150 a month, another from $32.50 to $71. In New York, increases ranged from 15% to 200%; in Denver up to 350%. In San...
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