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Recommendation to Accept the Fiscal Year 2019-20 Annual Report for the City's Rent Program. (Community Development)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The City of Alameda's (City) Rent Control, Limitations on Evictions and Relocation Payments to Displaced Tenants Ordinance requires the Housing Authority, as the City's Rent Program Administrator, to prepare annually a report assessing the effectiveness of the Rent Program and recommending changes as appropriate. The Fiscal Year (FY) 2019-20 Report is attached (Exhibit 1). The City Council adopted several ordinances and resolutions in the summer and fall of 2019 that made substantial revisions to the City's Rent Program. The Report therefore reflects the first year of administering the City's new Rent Program.
BACKGROUND
In September 2019, the City Council repealed Ordinance No. 3148, adopted in 2016, and adopted Ordinance No. 3250, which established a new rent control and limitations on evictions program. Rent Ordinance No. 3250 retained the requirement that the Housing Authority, as the City's Program Administrator, prepare an annual report assessing the effectiveness of the Rent Program and recommending any changes, as appropriate. For the City Council's and the community's review, staff submits the fourth annual report covering July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020.
Rent Ordinance No. 3250 established a new rent registration program that has allowed the Rent Program staff to collect data concerning rents in Alameda, information in which the City Council and members of the community have expressed interest. Most of the information in this year's Annual Report (and this agenda report) is based on the collected registration information.
DISCUSSION
FY 2019-20 Annual Report Highlights
Rental Market Trends
Nearly half of all tenant households in the City continue to be "rent burdened" based on data available from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2018 American Communit...
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