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Lemon Grove residents plead for help as Olive Street tenants receive renovation notices and rent hikes
Summary
Multiple long-term residents of a Lemon Grove apartment complex told the council they received 60–90 day notices and were told rents would jump; the council asked the city attorney to draft tenant-protection options and staff to follow up with affected tenants.
At the Jan. 20 Lemon Grove City Council meeting, a string of residents from an Olive Street apartment complex pleaded with council members to halt what they described as abrupt renovation notices and steep rent increases that threaten long-term, elderly and disabled tenants.
Residents described a pattern they said began after new owners took over the complex at 3280 Olive Street. "First they basically lied to our faces," said Danny Morrissey, a U.S. Navy veteran who said he and others in his complex were handed 60-day notices after being told earlier they did not need to move. Morrissey said about "67 units" on the block were being affected and that some tenants include elderly people…
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