Eagle Rock tenants fighting to stay in rent-stabilized building [Video]

EAGLE ROCK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Tenants in Eagle Rock could be forced to leave their rent-stabilized building to make room for a new housing project, leaving many fearing for their future.

“Stress, anxiety, fear, where am I going to go? I mean, I grew up here. This community is my home,” said tenant Celena Juarez, who’s lived in the building for 47 years. She pays $460 a month for her two-bedroom apartment.

Celena’s mother Sally lived there first. She still lives in the building but a different unit.

Documents from the Los Angeles City Planning department show plans for a seven-story affordable housing apartment building at 4319 Toland Way.

“We know that it is a building that’s set to be affordable, but the ranges that that could be could mean that rent here would be raised by hundreds of dollars, many of which are out of the hands of these tenants,” said L.A. City Councilmember …