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Subject:October 28 Study Session on Tenant Protections: Agenda Item 5a
Dear Mayor, Councilmembers, and Staff:
Thank you for making renter protections a part of our Major City Goals, and for your commitment to
ensuring safe and stable housing for every resident of our City. I sincerely appreciate the time and
effort staff have put into engaging with stakeholders and preparing the comprehensive report
accompanying the agenda for this Tuesday's study session.
As staff have repeatedly demonstrated, existing law does not effectively protect most renters in our
City, and existing programs do not meet the needs of many residents. The program options they
have presented are common-sense solutions to fill these gaps and ensure that all rental units meet
basic habitability standards, that tenants aren't evicted without cause or justification, and that the
City can collect basic information on our rental housing stock to formulate effective policy. These
programs have been successfully implemented in many other cities and counties across California and
the nation, and there is no reason they cannot be implemented here if we have the courage to stay
the course.
I can understand why some interest groups would circulate misinformation about the effectiveness
and impacts of such programs and the City’s prior efforts to meet these goals. When the City
prematurely abandoned prior efforts, it promised to implement new policies to meet those goals.
Now is the time to keep that promise.
We all want a livable community with healthy, vibrant neighborhoods, where everyone has
safe, stable housing, no matter what. Please continue to move forward to achieve those goals as
soon as possible.
Best,
Tyler C. Coari
pronouns he/him/his
College of Liberal Arts/MPP Candidate
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA
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www.calpoly.edu
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