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Cities of Marina and Salinas face moments of reckoning over rent control.
Local Spin | Opinion

Cities of Marina and Salinas face moments of reckoning over rent control.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Sep 11, 2025

For many of the 28 years Paula Pelot has lived in her two-bedroom apartment at Preston Park, a city-owned complex in Marina, she has been the …

Salinas City Council to decide what’s next on referendum over housing-related ordinances.
News

Salinas City Council to decide what’s next on referendum over housing-related ordinances.

  • Celia Jiménez
  • Aug 21, 2025

A 2.75-percent annual cap on rent increases, a rent registry and two other tenant protection ordinances are headed to Salinas City Council, again.

Protect Salinas Renters gathers enough signatures for a referendum on reversal of renter protection ordinances.
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Protect Salinas Renters gathers enough signatures for a referendum on reversal of renter protection ordinances.

  • Celia Jiménez
  • Aug 15, 2025

On Friday, Aug. 15, the Monterey County Registrar of Voters certified that Protect Salinas Renters had gathered enough signatures—10 percent o…

Housing-related ordinances in Salinas are reinstated while referendum’s signatures are being verified.
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Housing-related ordinances in Salinas are reinstated while referendum’s signatures are being verified.

  • Celia Jiménez
  • Jul 11, 2025

On July 10, the City of Salinas announced the four housing-related ordinances the city council rejected last month were reinstated as the refe…

A group seeking to save renter protections in Salinas nearly reaches its goal of 10,000 signatures.
Opinion

A group seeking to save renter protections in Salinas nearly reaches its goal of 10,000 signatures.

  • Celia Jiménez
  • Jun 30, 2025

Celia Jiménez here, thinking I’ve seen Protect Salinas Renters hasta en la sopa, meaning they’re everywhere I’ve looked, including farmers mar…

After repealing ordinances, Salinas mayor announces alternatives to address the rental crisis.
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After repealing ordinances, Salinas mayor announces alternatives to address the rental crisis.

  • Celia Jiménez
  • Jun 12, 2025

Two days after Salinas City Council voted 5-2 to repeal four housing-related ordinances, including a rent stabilization cap of 2.75 percent an…

Salinas residents launch a referendum to bring back repealed tenant protection ordinances.
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Salinas residents launch a referendum to bring back repealed tenant protection ordinances.

  • Celia Jiménez
  • Jun 4, 2025

A vote by Salinas City Council on Tuesday night to repeal four housing-related ordinances was by now expected. The council had previously vote…

Letters to the Editor 05.22.25
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Letters to the Editor 05.22.25

  • May 22, 2025

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Salinas City Council votes 5-2 in favor of rescinding four renter-protection ordinances.
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Salinas City Council votes 5-2 in favor of rescinding four renter-protection ordinances.

  • Sara Rubin
  • May 1, 2025

On Tuesday, April 22, Salinas City Council voted 5-2 in support of steps to rescind four ordinances, including Monterey County’s first rent st…

Salinas led the region by implementing rent stabilization. Let’s give it a chance to work.
Forum | Opinion

Salinas led the region by implementing rent stabilization. Let’s give it a chance to work.

  • John Silva and Corina De La Torre
  • Apr 24, 2025

Rental stability matters in Salinas, where 53 percent of residents rent their homes, higher than the 44 percent statewide average. That’s why …

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