“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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