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Lisa Jouet <
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Cc:Barry Price
Subject:October 28 2025 Study Session on Tenant Protections: Agenda Item 5a
Dear Mayor Stewart, City 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 in San Luis Obispo.
I 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.
Existing law does not effectively protect most renters in San Luis Obispo. Existing programs do not meet
the needs of many residents.
The program options Staff have presented are common-sense solutions. We need to fill these gaps and
ensure all rental units meet basic habitability standards, tenants aren't evicted without cause or
justification, and SLO can collect basic information on our rental housing stock that can be used to
formulate effective policy. Without data, we are unable to make informed decisions.
These programs have been implemented successfully in many other cities and counties across California
and the nation, and there is no reason they cannot be successfully implemented here. We need to muster
up the courage to do the right thing for renters.
I can understand why some interests would circulate misinformation about the effectiveness and impacts
of such programs and San Luis Obispo's prior efforts to meet these goals. When the SLO prematurely
abandoned prior efforts, it came with a promise that new policies would be implemented to meet those
goals. Now is the time to keep that promise.
We all want a livable community with healthy and vibrant neighborhoods, where everyone has safe and
stable housing, no matter what.
Please continue to move forward to achieve those goals without delay.
Sincerely,
Lisa Jouet
SLO Resident, Community Member, and advocate for all
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