BEACON FALLS —Tenants from the River’s Edge Mobile Home Community in Beacon Falls are petitioning the town to create a Fair Rent Commission after the community’s owner, Athena, raised tenants’ rents by $50 a month, an increase of about 10 percent.
At a Board of Selectmen meeting on Monday, about 30 residents packed into the town hall’s meeting room, where they told the local political leaders about the increases in rent and the maintenance problems that the residents were contending with.
Colleen Dana, one of the group’s leaders in creating the petition, told CT Examiner that their rent used to go up about $10 per month each year. In the last three years since Athena purchased the park in 2019, she said, the rents had increased by $125 a month.
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