Question juridique clé
Whether a rent increase for a municipally subsidized apartment may be assessed under the absolute method without an earlier reservation of increase
Solution extraite
Yes. When a municipality actually provided subsidized housing and later removes the original subsidy, the absolute method may be applied even without a prior rent-increase reservation.
Motifs extraits
The tenant could not rely on trust in the adequacy of the last rent because the lease clearly identified the dwelling as subsidized or otherwise discounted. The absence of a reservation was not decisive, since the municipality did not lease the property on cost-covering private terms but provided socially motivated rent relief.