Fifth in a series
Re “Peering into the Saddened Faces of Victims of Huge Rent Increases”
[Editor’s Note: Distressing reports such as the following incident are bobbing up around Culver City this season. The unprecedented notion of rent control is being heatedly discussed in some quarters of the city following two recent deaths suffered by persons just informed of titanic-sized rent increases. City Hall remains stoutly opposed to the concept.]
By now, a month after they first were reported by a resident of the Downtown adjacent apartment complex known as Harmony Village, it is known across the community that two coincidental deaths occurred this summer just after gigantic rent increases were imposed in their buildings.
That is not all, as Jose Garcia, a nearly two-decade resident of Harmony Village, with his wife Kym, said.
“Even a dog here passed away recently from depression,” Mr. Garcia said.
“Dogs, you know, can sense things.
“Within two days after (the dog’s owner) moved, he came home and found his dog dead in the living room.
“He was devastated. He had just moved two weeks ago. Now this.”
Both man and dog were beloved by their 11 neighbors.
The shock plunged the tenant’s loyal friends at Harmony Village into mourning.
