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Shelterforce | C Servidio
It was the summer of 2022, and tenants at the Portside East and Portside West apartment towers in Jersey City, New Jersey (above), had been hit with rent increases that ranged from 25 to 50 percent, hikes that many residents—like the Botelho sisters—couldn’t afford…. Jersey City is one of dozens of municipalities in New Jersey that have rent control or rent stabilization policies on the books, with some exceptions, and the tenants believed their building should have been subject to rent control.