The Palaszczuk government is reviewing laws limiting rent hikes amid reports Queensland landlords are kicking tenants out to get around the new caps.
The laws passed in April aimed to ensure tenants would only see their rent raised once a year as the state struggles with some of the country's steepest increases.
However, Housing Minister Meaghan Scanlon said reports had emerged of landlords and agents skirting this by ending tenants' leases to increase rents more often.
The government is proposing changes that apply annual rent hikes to the rental property rather than the tenancy.
"This would mean rents could not be increased more frequently than once a year, even if the lease with the current renters ends and new renters enter a lease for the same rental property," the Department of Housing statement survey said.
"I want to ensure that the original intent of our laws is respected," Ms Scanlon tweeted on Thursday.
"We have launched a discussion paper, considering a proposal to ensure the laws are not circumvented, and that renters aren’t unfairly penalised by behaviour aimed at avoiding limits to rent increases."
More than one million Sunshine State renters "must be given a fair go", Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told parliament in March when announcing the initial changes that changed increases from twice to once a year.
The reforms, passed in April, brought Queensland into line with limits on the frequency of rent hikes in NSW, Victoria, Tasmania, the ACT and SA.
The Real Estate Institute of Queensland criticised the changes, saying the government had given assurances a cap was not going to happen and the changes did not address housing supply.
Tenants Queensland warned that without limits to the size of rental increases, landlords would simply use the end of fixed-term leases as a proxy to hike rent.
Deputy Premier Steven Miles on Thursday defended the government's reforms while acknowledging there would always be people who tried to find loopholes.
“In this case, sometimes we have to then move to adjust to deal with those loopholes and that’s what the housing minister has done,” he told reporters.
Opposition housing spokesman Tim Mander said the only people who did not foresee the tenancy laws problems were "Steven Miles and his government".
"He was warned by the opposition, he was warned by the real estate industry and he was warned by renters," he said.
