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Portside tenants and advocates press council to enforce rent control and collect fines from Equity Residential
Summary
Tenants and tenant organizers told the council at length they believe Equity Residential has withheld required registrations, failed to provide building security and improperly raised rents; speakers called for enforcement under Jersey City rent‑control rules and for the city to collect daily per‑unit fines for violations.
Tenants from Portside Towers and tenant advocates used public comment time Wednesday to demand that the city enforce Jersey City’s rent control and multiple‑dwelling rules against Equity Residential and collect fines they say are owed from long‑running violations.
Why it matters: speakers said an alleged, decades‑long failure to register units and deliver required building services has allowed illegal rent increases to compound citywide, pushing working families out of neighborhoods and reducing local economic vibrancy.
Tenant advocates and residents described a pattern they say is deliberate: failure to register for rent‑control exemptions, failure to…
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