Residents fought to keep the rent control rule in place to hold down annual increases on city apartments and rental properties.
that many landlords and local officials said was outdated.
Protesters pressured council members for more than a month to keep the $20 cap and protect tenants’ bills from increasing at a rapid pace. But the majority of city council members voted to remove the $20 cap at last Tuesday’s city council meeting.“The ordinance for the $20 cap was put in place back in the 1980s,” Grova Jr. said last week. “At that time, rents in Elizabeth were $600, $700. So it made sense. Now, the average rent in Elizabeth is $1,500, so $20 is not big.
New Jersey is the seventh most expensive state to rent, according to a July report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition, a nonprofit group. Tenants who came to the city council meetings to voice concerns about their rent should be directed to Elizabeth’s, said Grova, the city councilman. Some tenants said their landlords were already raising rents each year beyond the $20 limit, despite the rent control rules.
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