Rent increase proposal California
I live in an affordable housing building where rents are normally much lower than market value. I received a 5-year Section 8 voucher and have been using it for the past 2 years. This year, the building requested a rent increase from $1,313 to $1,780, even though during the 15 years I’ve lived here, rent increases were usually around 5% yearly.
The housing authority first refused the increase after I mentioned California law AB 846 and concerns about increases beyond normal limits, but later they approved it and said they had to approve it. my tenant portion is now around $900. And without the voucher it should be 1300 make it make sense. So the building is trying to take advantage of me and the voucher
What concerns me most is that management told me directly this increase happened because I have a voucher, and that if I did not have the voucher, the increase would have only been around the normal 5%
Does anybody been through this ? What would you do ?