HomeMy WebLinkAbout2/24/2026 Item 4a, Boi
Soi Boi <sackettofchestnut@gmail.com>
Sent:Tuesday,
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,
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