{"id":8393,"date":"2023-05-24T15:05:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T19:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/?p=8393"},"modified":"2023-05-31T15:10:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T19:10:59","slug":"bronx-residents-rally-to-demand-rent-controlled-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/2023\/05\/24\/bronx-residents-rally-to-demand-rent-controlled-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx residents rally to demand rent-controlled community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/bronx-residents-rally-to-demand-rent-controlled-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Originally published by News 12 The Bronx<\/a>, May 24, 2023<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">Some Bronx residents are making their voices heard ahead of an upcoming community public hearing, asking for a rent-controlled community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">This comes as protesters, many of whom say they are immigrants, claim that their rent has doubled or tripled, reaching a point where they struggle to make payments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">&#8220;We need a reasonable rent freeze for us to stabilize ourselves, because right now we&#8217;re going through a lot&#8230; our essential products that we need we don&#8217;t have enough money to buy them for the month,&#8221; said tenant Nelia Ruiz.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"block\">Members of Community Action for Safe Apartments told News 12 that their current living conditions do not match the proposed rent hike prices. On May 2, the mayor\u2019s office proposed a rent hike for city tenants in rent-stabilized apartments following a Rent Guidelines Board preliminary vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">The vote was in favor of a maximum rent increase of between 2% and 5% for one-year leases and between 4% and 7% on two-year leases in rent-controlled units.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published by News 12 The Bronx, May 24, 2023 Some Bronx residents are making their voices heard ahead of an upcoming community public hearing, asking for a rent-controlled community. This comes as protesters, many of whom say they are immigrants, claim that their rent has doubled or tripled, reaching a point where they struggle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":8394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-8393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press","category-tenant-organizing","tag-tenant-organizing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8398,"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393\/revisions\/8398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/casa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}