India, May 6 -- An American woman living in Bengaluru has voiced her frustration with the city's problematic and uncontrolled rent hikes. Dana Marie said in an Instagram video that her landlord wants to increase her rent by 33% - a steep hike by any measure. What made it worse is the fact that if she refused, she could easily be evicted as there are plenty of people willing to pay the price.

The Bengaluru-based content creator contrasted this hike with the rental system in the US, where landlords often have to abide by rent caps.

"This is a problem. Do you know in the US, this wouldn't even be legal in a lot of places," she revealed. "They have rent caps like 10% annually. You can't increase more than that, and people actually follow th...