![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One tenant who works part time after losing a full-time job and doesn't qualify for government assistance, said she struggles to afford food in addition to paying for rent, while another tenant testified the rent was so high, he was forced to move. Other Woodbridge Hills residents testified about rent increases ranging from 7.5% to 8%. One tenant in his 70s told the Rent Leveling Board he's paying $1,983 a month under a lease that expires in May 2023 and the proposed increase would be $2,131.72, an increase of 7.5 percent, according to the board's resolution.Īnother tenant testified his lease expired in September 2022 with a monthly rent of $1,625 and the new rent is $1,755, an increase of 8 percent, the resolution says. Under the township's rent control ordinance, at the expiration of a lease, no landlord shall request or receive a rent increase greater than 5% of the base rent for the previous 12 months. Woodbridge Hills residents had testified before the township's Rent Leveling Board about rent increases ranging from 7.5% to 8%. WOODBRIDGE – The landlord of a 456-unit apartment complex for people at least 55 years old in the Iselin section, has been ordered immediately to stop offering rents which exceed a 5% increase after allegedly telling tenants that the complex's exemption from rent control expires in 2031, when it actually expired 18 years ago. ![]()
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