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Turk says the higher rates are "impossible for many low- and middle-class families to afford" and that some families have had to find second jobs to pay their rent...
JoAnne Preston, chair of the Agassiz Tenants' Association, says that there have been dire civic ramifications associated with rent control's repeal...
...Rent control is a way of trying to protect a very scarce commodity, to preserve communities, to allow people to continue to live in their homes," Preston says...
...Maddox and other property owners say that rent-control supporters exaggerate their claims about eviction rates, rent hikes and community debilitation...
...tenants are not evicted," he says. "They're just subject to an increase in rent...