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August 31, 2018
Los Angeles County has not had a rent control policy for its unincorporated areas since Ronald Reagan was president. That leaves
low-income tenants like 62-year-old Jose Nuñez, of Florence-Firestone, with limited options. Nuñez, who gets by on a $975 monthly
disability payment, was recently served with an eviction notice
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Nuñez hasn't been able to find another apartment he can afford. And so he and other tenants have banded together to fight the
eviction in court. Theirs is an increasingly common battle in California, where skyrocketing rents have given rise to a burgeoning
tenants-rights movement
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