By Nadia Levin, City Times Media 

Students for Housing Justice at San Diego City College held a renters’ rights workshop focused on helping attendees understand tenant rights laws in California and San Diego.

The seminar, held on Dec. 4 in MS-462, included a presentation by Ana Ramos, an organizer at Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action, who addressed rent caps, local and statewide tenant protections, and the eviction process.

ACCE Action is a statewide grassroots community organization with more than 15,000 members that dedicates itself to “empowering the community to advocate for themselves, and we primarily fight for racial, social and economic justice in working class communities,” according to Ramos.

Why SHJ hosted this workshop: San Diego residents are experiencing a housing crisis with renters needing to earn $47.67 per hour to afford the average monthly asking rent of $2,479, according to the California Housing Partnership report.