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Lisa Jouet <
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 city staff who have put time into engaging with stakeholders and preparing the
comprehensive report which will be presented this Tuesday 2/24 at the study session.
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 the city of SLO 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 we need it here. (Please see Monterey's Rental
Inventory on their website, Los Angeles, Fresno, Concord and more.)
https://monterey.gov/your_city_hall/departments/community_development/housing_programs/rental_inv
entory.php
We all want a livable community with healthy and vibrant neighborhoods, where everyone has safe and
stable housing. Please continue to move forward to achieve those goals without delay.
Respectfully,
Lisa Jouet
SLO
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