What would adopting another state's tenant protections do to your rent?
Based on the peer-reviewed Tenant Rights Index (Coulson, Le, Ortego-Marti & Shen, 2025).
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Estimated effects % change vs. study average
Your rent:/mo
Which laws differ
Usually only 3–4 of the 12 statutes differ; gray rows are identical.
Provision
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Contribution
% of gap
Worked example: Montana → Massachusetts.
Actual rent gap is 57% ($1,177 vs. $1,848, ACS 2024) — but the model attributes only about
+7% of that to tenant law itself; the rest is geography, income, and supply. Montana's
eviction rate isn't reliably measured at all (no Eviction Lab or statewide court data).