HomeMy WebLinkAbout2/24/2026 Item 4a, Spanos
12:47 PM
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, Kristyn Spanos
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