Dozens of tenants have organized to stop a rent hike they say would force them out of their longtime homes. Their landlord says they received letters with an incorrect increase amount.
“I’m not going to be able to afford what they’re asking,” one tenant said. “Even if it were something I could afford, it’s not worth it.”
She showed copies of leases from last year and this year after she and other tenants delivered a letter of demands to the housing authority’s offices Friday afternoon. Her rent increased from $1,100 a month to $1,380. The amounts listed in the letters tenants received were for new move-ins, not current residents, Dabb wrote in an email. The correct increase current tenants face is 10%, or about $100, she said.But that would still put Castillo’s rent at $1,210 — nearly $200 more than the standard rent for each type of unit the tenants demand in the letter delivered Friday.
They also ask for an end to rent increases and a meeting with Daniel Nackerman, the agency’s executive director, to negotiate rent amounts. She pays a little more than $900 for a two-bedroom apartment that she shares with her 11-year-old son. She renewed her lease at that rate in December.
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