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Recommendation to Receive a Report Analyzing the Impact of Rising Rents on Alameda Residents;
Public Hearing to Consider Additional Tenant Protections and Provide Direction to Staff about Policies to Pursue regarding Enhanced Mediation/Rent Stabilization, Just Cause Eviction Protection and/or Relocation Benefits, the Composition of the Rent Review Advisory Committee (RRAC), and the Use of Boomerang Funds to Expand the City's Supply of Permanent Affordable Housing; and
Consider Adoption of Urgency Ordinance Imposing within the City of Alameda a Temporary (65 Day) Moratorium on Certain Residential Rent Increases and on Evictions from All Residential Rental Units Except for Just Cause Eviction for the Immediate Preservation of Peace, Health or Safety. [Requires four affirmative votes] (City Manager 2110)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Elizabeth D. Warmerdam, Interim City Manager
Re: Receive a report analyzing the impact of rising rents on Alameda residents; conduct a public hearing and provide direction to staff about policies to pursue regarding enhanced mediation/rent stabilization, just cause eviction protection, and/or relocation benefits, and the composition of the RRAC; direction is also requested regarding consideration of the use of Boomerang funds to expand the City's supply of permanent affordable housing; and consider adopting an Urgency Ordinance for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety enacting a temporary moratorium on rental increases and/or evictions without just cause
BACKGROUND
In September 2014, at the request of property owners and tenants, in lieu of establishing a task force to study the impacts of rising rents on Alameda residents, the City Council endorsed a community engagement process that was led by Mr. Jeff Cambra. Mr. Cambra worked with both property owner and tenant representatives to develop a series of recommendations to strengthen the Cit...
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