Dwight Dixon's home is a three-story, 10-unit apartment building with a flat roof that looks like many other built in Columbus in the 1950s and 1960s.
Dixon, 61, has lived for three years in the building on North 21st Street, just north of East Broad Street in the King-Lincoln-Bronzeville neighborhood on the Near East Side.
Dixon would love to stay. He said he is on disability and does maintenance at the property, including cutting grass.
But in August, he received a letter from the building's new managers that his monthly rent will almost double beginning Nov. 1, from $500 to $950.
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Carlie Boos, executive director of the Affordable Housing Alliance of Central Ohio, said it's an ongoing concern.
"We know that this is happening. Our affordable housing providers are losing land battles to market-rate buyers," Boos said.
Boos said tenants in the building could be eligible for emergency rent assistance from IMPACT Community Action.
"We don’t need people becoming homeless during a pandemic," Boos said.