A policy brief, Rent Regulation for the 21st Century: Pairing Anti-Gouging with Targeted Subsidies, from the NYU Furman Center suggests pairing broad-based anti-gouging rent regulation paired with targeted subsidies as the best way to stabilize low-income renters while avoiding the drawbacks of strict, broad rent regulation and means-testing. Anti-gouging regulations cap a landlord’s ability to increase rent beyond a certain amount, typically set at a given percentage above inflation. Targeting subsidies to low-income tenants ties assistance to people instead of housing units, while anti-gouging caps prevent landlords from raising rent and inadvertently, subsidy costs. Both California and Oregon have recently adopted statewide anti-gouging regulations, limiting rent increases to five and seven percentage points above the consumer price index, respectively.