Austin helped buy cheap apartments with the intent of keeping prices low. Instead, rents went up. - Austin Monitor
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"No one will be displaced," James May, who works for Austin's housing department, told community members at a meeting in July. "We are not going to raise their rent ... and we are not going to make them leave."
It's a compromise renters understand intimately. Put up with delayed maintenance and shabby interiors in exchange for paying less than your neighbors.
Read at Austin Monitor
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