🔴 More than 6,700 residents in Passaic County were evicted last year
🔴 Passaic City Council pressured to pass rent control, tenant protections
PASSAIC — Facing pressure from angry renters, the third-largest city in Passaic County is close to imposing new restrictions on landlords.
Evictions in Passaic County more than doubled from 2,652 in the year 2021 to 6,745 in 2024, according to Make the Road NJ, which cited court management statistics.
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Local housing advocates said at the most recent city council meeting that the “crisis” is due to rapidly rising rents.
“Most of the tenants in this room have been paying rent increases double, and triple, and quadruple, and quintuple the inflation rate for many, many years,” said Mitchell Khan, vice president of the New Jersey Tenants Organization…