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A Jacksonville woman who came to News4JAX with her story about her rent going up hundreds of dollars is having the offer to renew her lease rescinded.

Kelsey Christ told News4Jax that she has lived there at the Luxor Club on the southside for three years.

The News4JAX I-TEAM continues to hear from people about rising rents throughout the Jacksonville metro area. So, we wanted to take a look at the ZIP codes with the highest rent increase over the past year, and the one ZIP code where the rent has actually decreased.

According to real estate brokerage firm Redfin, the Jacksonville metro area had the ninth fastest-rising rent in the country, ahead of Florida cities like Orlando and Tampa.

What has your experience been? Have you been forced to change your living situation due to rent rising?

In his filmmaking debut, Lin-Manuel Miranda turns a small-scale musical by the creator of Rent into an inventive piece of cinematic biography.

Jacksonville has become a hot housing market, particularly with apartments.

Some tenants face big demands from landlords for upfront rent and there is no legal limit.

"Rent" original cast members reflect on groundbreaking musical, celebrate its 25th anniversary In 1996, "Rent" changed the sound and face of the modern musical with its rock music, diverse cast and edgy subject. The show won four Tony Awards including Best Musical, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Vladimir Duthiers visited the East Village theater where it all began and spoke with original cast members Idina Menzel and Wilson Jermaine Heredia about why the show still resonates.

As the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic stretch into 2021, millions of U.S. renters are bracing for the possibility of having to show up in housing court to avoid getting evicted. Legal aid organizations and pro bono lawyers represent many renters every year, but the need outpaces what they can handle. While housing advocates have primarily pushed for rent relief from the government, experts also expect more cities to join the movement to give tenants the right to an attorney. But this month, Maryland’s largest city became the latest U.S. jurisdiction to grant renters a right to counsel in those cases. In 2017, New York became the first U.S. city to guarantee the right to an attorney in housing court.

Free-range chickens for rent Tired of those boring supermarket eggs in polystyrene cartons? Now you can enjoy fresh, delicious organic eggs from free-range chickens as local as your own backyard. Bill Geist meets the owners of the Rent-a-Coop chicken business in Potomac, Md.