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Subject: FW: Rental Housing Inspection Program
From: Holly Sletteland [mailto:hsletteWcalpoly.edu]
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 6:40 PM
To: E -mail Council Website
Subject: Rental Housing Inspection Program
FRECEIVED
Y 0 5 2015
ITY CUERK
COUNCIL MEETING:
ITEM NO.:
As an owner of rental property in the City of San Luis Obispo, I am writing to express my opposition to the proposed
Rental Housing Inspection Program. I would encourage you to continue to bring enforcement actions on the basis of
complaints, as opposed to burdening all landlords with additional costs and time commitments. On the one hand, you
justify this ordinance based on an increased number of complaints and then turn around and say people are afraid to
complain for fear of retaliation. You can't have it both ways.
This program represents an unnecessary imposition on responsible landlords and will result in rent increases as
additional costs are passed on to tenants in a city where affordable housing is in short supply. It also may be that SLO is
actually going to have to start zoning to make it easier to build more accessible dwelling units — such as garages,
basements and backyard apartments — to accommodate an increasingly elderly population (See commentary in 5/1
Tribune). These would presumably meet all appropriate building codes, but there is also some merit in the argument
that this program will simply force people living in substandard units onto the street. Surely, even a substandard unit is
a step above homelessness (although I am not advocating unsafe conditions or ignoring the law).
Please consider less oppressive measures to insure that people are housed appropriately.
Holly Sletteland
Templeton, CA 93465