HomeMy WebLinkAbout2/24/2026 Item 4a, Hansel
Colunga-Lopez, Andrea
Olivia Hansel <oliviahansel97@gmail.com>
Sent:Monday, February
To:E-mail Council Website
Subject:February 24 Study Session on Rental Registries
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 ably demonstrated, a comprehensive and mandatory rental registry will allow the City to
collect basic information on our rental housing stock that is not available from other sources. The data
collected will help develop the City’s General Plan Housing Element, inform on where more multi-family
and other housing types would be most effective, and can be used to formulate effective policy.
Revenue-neutral, standalone rental registries have been implemented successfully in many other cities
and counties across California and the nation, and there is no reason it cannot be implemented
successfully here.
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.
Respectfully,
Olivia Hansel
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