City Heights Rent Control Protest
By Mario A. Cortez Mario A. Cortez | La Prensa San Diego At the site of an uninhabitable apartment building in City Heights, where new management has increased rent by upward of $700 in recent months, local residents and tenants rights activists gathered last Friday to bring attention to the issue of quickly rising rent prices in underserved communities and to call on City Council to take action on a rent control ordinance to cap yearly increases to 2%. The approximately 100 attendees held a rally outside the property on 4812 49th Street and then marched through the streets of City Heights, ...
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