When Stasha Powell moved into her one-bedroom apartment in Redwood City, CA, about 26 miles south of San Francisco, the rent was $625 per month. That was 17 years ago. Today, Powell, 44, faces a rent set to increase within months to $2,600—more than double her current rate of $1,040. And that’s for a 450-square-foot, unfurnished, non-air-conditioned […]