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Minister defends 4.5 percent rent increase amid tenant advocacy pushback
1 month ago

Minister defends 4.5 percent rent increase amid tenant advocacy pushback

NL Times  

Housing Minister Mona Keijzer has rejected calls from tenant advocacy groups to reduce the proposed 4.5 percent rent increase for social housing tenants. The Woonbond, the Netherlands’ largest tenant advocacy group, recently withdrew from negotiations, calling the increase excessive and a burden on renters already grappling with the housing crisis. “The government has spent years systematically dismantling the social housing …

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Struggling tenant sums up Australia's rental crisis as he looks for a housemate to share a bed for $300 a week
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Struggling tenant sums up Australia's rental crisis as he looks for a housemate to share a bed for $300 a week

Daily Mail  

An international student has been forced to search for a housemate to share a bed at his house for $300 a week in a sign of Australia's worsening rental crisis. Student William Vanneste, 22, has been forced to ask his potential roommates to share a bed Pictured is the furnished two-bedroom apartment in Sydney's lower north shore In the post, …

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Opinion: How tenant unions are finding power in numbers to fight L.A.’s housing crisis
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: How tenant unions are finding power in numbers to fight L.A.’s housing crisis

LA Times  

Many Los Angeles residents struggle to stay in their homes. As scholars studying the history of housing in L.A. and as organizers with the Union de Vecinos, a local branch of the Los Angeles Tenants Union, we have found that tenant unions are leading a more effective response to the region’s housing crisis. In 2015, Union de Vecinos helped found …

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What are California lawmakers doing to fix the housing crisis? A look at 2023’s new bills
1 year, 8 months ago

What are California lawmakers doing to fix the housing crisis? A look at 2023’s new bills

LA Times  

California lawmakers have introduced a flurry of bills to make it easier to increase housing production and strengthen tenant protections. Feeling political pressure to solve California’s severe housing shortage and ballooning homelessness, state lawmakers are pushing new bills to increase production of affordable homes and strengthen tenant protections against evictions and surging rents. Dan Dunmoyer, president and CEO of the …

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L.A. City Council votes to dramatically expand tenant protections ahead of deadline
1 year, 11 months ago

L.A. City Council votes to dramatically expand tenant protections ahead of deadline

LA Times  

With pressure mounting and the clock ticking, the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Friday to dramatically expand protections for renters, heading off what advocates had feared could become a wave of evictions. Some renters, including those in rent-stabilized units, already have “just cause” eviction protections, but making them universal expands the protections to about 400,000 additional units, according to …

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The New Yorkers in crisis over skyrocketing rents
2 years, 6 months ago

The New Yorkers in crisis over skyrocketing rents

BBC  

The New Yorkers in crisis over skyrocketing rents Getty Images In major cities across the globe, including New York City, rent prices have gone through the roof. Sam Chandan, professor of finance at New York University in New York City, and director of its Center for Real Estate Finance Research, says the renters most feeling the squeeze are those in …

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Pandemic eviction crisis leads to greater tenant protections
3 years, 4 months ago

Pandemic eviction crisis leads to greater tenant protections

Associated Press  

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — In a mostly empty conference room at a Virginia cultural arts center, Tara Simmons was looking for someone who might help her stave off eviction. “The pandemic, at least here in Baltimore, has created a sense of urgency around creating some forms of tenant protection,” said Carisa Hatfield, a housing attorney for the Homeless Persons Representation …

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Landlords are waiting for rent payments — and some can’t hold on much longer
3 years, 8 months ago

Landlords are waiting for rent payments — and some can’t hold on much longer

LA Times  

Irma Vargas of RST & Associates, a property management company, says about 7% of the firm’s tenants are behind on rent. A new survey published Monday by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania offers more specific insight into the pandemic’s effect on landlords in Los Angeles: More than half of 1,300 property owners surveyed in December last year said their …

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Endorsement: Yes on Prop. 21. California has a housing crisis and cities should be able to protect tenants
4 years, 3 months ago

Endorsement: Yes on Prop. 21. California has a housing crisis and cities should be able to protect tenants

LA Times  

Proposition 21 may feel like deja vu. But a state law, the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act of 1995, restricts cities’ ability to enact or expand rent control programs to address their local conditions. Proposition 21 would allow cities to impose rent control on single-family houses or condos — if an individual owns more than two homes. More than a dozen …

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