Landord raised the rent

He gave me the notice yesterday it will increase by $85 starting May 1st. I tried negoting with him because I lost my job recently and I can only afford to pay the original price which is $865 he told me he can't promise me anything but will talk to the rental company I'm so worried I feel like he's lying about the rent increase these are greedy people from L.A who only care about money I'm a young single mom I can't afford the new price he then tells me that he it'll be increasing to $95 the following year like, wtf are you serious? The landlord we had before them never increased our rent but these L.A aholes want to. I live in a low income neighborhood and he wants to increase my rent wtf.