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CityCouncil | 2014-07-15 | 23 | I am saddened on how this has really affected my budget the last past 12 months. I can't seen to save any money with the way our economy is still below percentage for jobs and resources to improve employment status. Currently unemployed. No income. Paying rent from savings. Cannot afford another rental increase. Where will I move? "NO REAL CONCERN BEYOND NORMAL. LANDLORD USALLY HAS ASKED ME IF I COULD AFFORD A RENT INCREASE? SOME TIMES HE DOES NOT INCREASE'S IT. 3% IS Fair. I LIVE IN A GOOD AREA OF ALAMEDA. ALAMEDA IS WORTH MORE TO LIVE HERE. COMPARED TO S.F. SAFER THAN NEIGHBORING TOWN'S. I PAY ELECTRIC ONLY. I SEE CITY VARIOUS BUSINESS FEE'S GOING UP. I SEE IN THE NEWS THAT PROPERTY TAX'S ARE GOING UP.LANDLOARD PAY'S ACI, EBMUD AND PG&E. LANDLOARD SAY'S LOAN IS ON A VARIABLE %. Greater than 10% increase in single month. This landlord purchased the two buildings 2 months before I moved in. ALL the tenants save 2 have moved out because she increased the rent by $200 if not more. One tenant was an 85 yr old SICK woman who ran out of money & had to move into state run home- she died after being there 4 days! All the tenants who moved in after me are paying $1650 & over. After a fire in one unit & subsequent construction ( still ongoing), landlord is trying to get $1850 + for 1 bedroom apts. I'm sure she will raise my rent at end of lease in November. We are mostly concerned about the reasons for the increase: HOA dues, parcel tax increase, and other increased expenses. The dues we discovered increased by only 11.00 and if there we are asked to vote on parcel tax increase, we now feel we'd be charged for those increased expenses so it's pressured us to offer a negative vote regardless of the issue. I'm disabled and my social security disability is my only source of income because I receive my benefit on the 2nd Wednesday of the month I am always late and pay a $100 fee. In addition I locked myself out and he onside manager charged me $50 to unlock my door! I am paying 90 percent of my income on rent My husband and I live in a studio apartment that we moved into when I was on a contract job and he was just starting a new job because we figured in 6 months or a year when our employment situations stabilized, we would move to a 1 bedroom, which was going for about $1200 at the time, I would say. They have gone up so much that we consider something in the $1400-1500 range a bargain, but not a good enough price to consider moving. Meanwhile we are in fear of our rent going up to what a 1 bedroom was when we first came to Alameda just over 1 year ago. The building I have called home for the last seven years recently changed hands and the rent was increased. The increase was uneven and I believe illegally applied. This is a five unit converted Victorian with 4 one bedroom units and a studio. Two of the one bedrooms have a small bonus space, maybe big enough for an office or a nursery, with a window and a door but no closet. When XXX was managing the building they said they did not qualify as bedrooms. Rent Survey for City of Alameda - Summary of Survey Results as of July, 15, 2015 5 www.RenewedHopeHousing.org RenewedHopeHousing@gmail.com Laura Thomas (510)522-8901 | CityCouncil/2014-07-15.pdf |