rack-rents
/ˈrækˌrɛnts/
VERB
1. Charging excessively high rent
Demanding or imposing an unusually high amount of rent for the use of property.
1.1. Demanding excessive rent from tenants
Charging tenants exorbitant rental payments for residential or commercial property.
Synonyms
- overcharges
- exploits
- extorts
Antonyms
- undercharges
- subsidizes
Examples
- The tenants struggled with the burden of high rack-rents in the city.
- The community rallied together to fight against unjust rack-rents imposed by landlords.
- Rent control measures were implemented to protect residents from escalating rack-rents.
- The housing crisis was exacerbated by landlords imposing exorbitant rack-rents on vulnerable families.