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Tenants and advocates press National City for rent control, anti-harassment protections and tenant organizing rights
Summary
Residents from Kimball Towers, Summercrest Apartments and other complexes described alleged management abuse, rising rents, and efforts to organize; they asked the council for rent control, tenant anti-harassment ordinances and protections for resident organizing.
Dozens of tenants and housing advocates used public comment at a National City Council meeting to describe landlord harassment, rising rents, and obstacles to tenant organizing, and they urged council action on rent control and anti-harassment protections.
Speakers from the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACE) and residents of Kimball Towers and Summercrest Apartments described repeated rent increases, management intimidation, unreturned…
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