San Diego County Board of Supervisors Vice Chair Tara Lawson-Remer is proposing several policies she said will combat exorbitant rents, including a possible lawsuit.
Robert Sanders, front, with megaphone, is followed by County Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer and a few dozen demonstrators outside the Blackstone-owned Bay Apartments in the Pacific Beach neighborhood of San Diego, Monday, July 15, 2024.
"We know that the Blackstones of the world, the Wall Street investors of the world ... are deliberately fixing prices colluding to drive up rents," Lawson-Remer told the crowd through a bullhorn."It's illegal, and it has to stop." It's not just rent spikes advocates blame on Blackstone. Renters also said the service has harassed tenants and failed to respond to maintenance requests.
"I noticed that everything I reported couldn't get done at all," Johnson said."It was now my fault, my responsibility. We went through maybe three or four managers before I could even at least get one simple thing fixed."Celeste Johnson tells the crowd in Pacific Beach Monday, July 15, 2024, about what's happened at her El Cajon apartment complex since Blackstone purchased the property in 2021.
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