Tenants like Brian Torres Suazo, a Culinary Union member employed as a food runner at Westgate, shared his own struggles with “unfair fees” before lauding the bill’s passage as a turning point.
“With my current apartment, I had to pay $300 just to apply, which I could've lost if I hadn't gotten approved. I'm expected to pay a fee when I pay my rent via debit card, and I'm asked to pay with my bank info to avoid that fee by putting it into a hard-to-use, sketchy-looking website that sometimes doesn’t work,” Torres Suazo said.