2. RELIGION may be defined as beliefs and patterns of behavior by which people try to deal with what they view as important problems that canât be solved by other means: e.g. the need to confront and explain life and death. All cultures have religions, which are powerful and dynamic forces in human society.
Rent control, or rent stabilization, is a collection of laws that restrict the rents a landlord can charge and limits the reasons for eviction. The two work together, so that the landlord doesn't get around a rent limit by evicting the tenant, instead, or vice versa.
Unions were created during the industrial revolution to protect the working person in a factory from excessive working hours, elimination of child labor, reasonable time off and breaks, decent pay. The government has embodied many of these protections into law but it was not always so.