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From:Kimberly Long <
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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