North Hollywood tenants take to the streets, fighting back against rent exploitation

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Tenants in North Hollywood took to the streets Saturday to fight back against rent exploitation.

A group of tenants from an apartment complex on 11815 Gilmore Street have banded together to fight unfair rent increases, poor housing conditions, and mistreatment by management and their corporate landlord.

Protesters tell FOX 11 they’ve had their rent increase about three to four times within the span of six months; some tenants saw a rent increase of $200. 

Now they say they're being threatened with eviction for speaking out.

“They want to get rid of us because we have decided to come together and make our living situation, put it in our own control and try to change it for the better by ourselves,” said tenant Cici Powers.

Powers says throughout the rent increase tenants haven’t seen any repairs or work being done on the complex. 

He says management has made it clear to them: they'd rather spend money on displacing working class families, than they would performing simple repairs and negotiate fair rent.

FOX 11’s Alexi Chidbachian contributed to this report