Calls and efforts for elected officials to get a grip on rising rents and track evictions are growing across Orange County.
It comes as a handful of cities across the county are using taxpayer dollars to help residents impacted by the widespread deportation enforcement actions to pay rent, get groceries and in some places get legal support as some fear going to work.
In Anaheim, one city councilwoman last month publicly called for a discussion on enforcing statewide rent control laws as a group of local tenants say they got city approval to circulate a petition to try to get a rent control ordinance on the November ballot in OC’s largest city…