Rent ceilings, rent freezes, renewal caps, eviction restrictions tied to regulated rent contracts, and exemption rules for new construction or small landlords.
Security of private property rights — formal recognition, expropriation risk, titling systems.
Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Malta's Private Residential Leases Act created a statutory framework for private rental contracts from 2020. It required registration of residential leases with the Housing Authority, set minimum contract durations and notice rules, regulated renewals and deposit handling, and capped annual rent increases unless the contract provides a lower adjustment.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.