Organizations want to bring a tenants union to Jacksonville to help fight rising cost of rent Internewscast

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Progressive Coalition, Florida Rising Together and Florida For All held a rental housing crisis forum Sunday to address the city’s skyrocketing rent prices. The group said its goal was to help renters in the River City find solutions to the rising cost of rent and provide a space to discuss ways to help them live comfortably. During the meeting, the group mentioned how a research project done at the University of North Florida found that more than half of renters surveyed are spending more than a third of their income on rent, making it hard…