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File Number: 15-582 August 19th Community Meeting: • Implement rent control at the annual rate of inflation. • Use CPI as a rent threshold. • Rent increases over the long term have actually been below the consumer price index (CPI) and reflect the upturn and downturns in the rental housing market over time. • Do not eliminate the $75 rent increase threshold, or increase it to $92, for eligibility to go before the Rent Review Board. • Reinstate the $75 threshold as the 10% threshold by itself would be a burden to renters. • Supports existing rent increase threshold of greater than 10% (of current rent). • Impose a 1 -year freeze on rent increases. • Make duplex properties eligible for rent review. • Existing ordinance allows self -policing for landlords and majority of cases are resolved before going to the Board. • Challenging for small landlords due to rising utility costs and needed repairs therefore rent increases are needed. • Prohibit a landlord from raising rents for a period of one year if the landlord does not appear without good cause at a Rent Review Board hearing. August 25th, September 22nd, October 27th, and November 17th Rent Review Board Meetings: • Institute an immediate one-year freeze on rent increases. • Reinstate the $75 rent increase threshold so that tenants are not "giving up their seat at the table". • Tie rent increases to the cost of living. • Adopt rent control capped at 5% or at the annual rate of inflation. • Institute a rent increase percentage threshold rather than a dollar threshold. • Supports existing rent increase threshold of greater than 10% (of current rent). • Keep the City Council as the final arbiter and do not change it to the City Manager. • Add duplexes and in-law units as eligible properties for rent review. • Do not support rent review for duplex properties. • Prohibit a landlord from raising rents for a period of one year if the landlord does not appear without good cause at a Rent Review Board hearing. • Supports RUBS (water/garbage) charges to be assessed as rent increase only at initial implementation of RUBS (i.e., subsequent RUBS increases are not considered as rent increases). • Adopt a Just Cause Eviction Ordinance to protect tenants. Written Comments received from the public, including Rental Housing Association (RHA) and East Bay Rental Housing Association (EBRHA) • Implement a 15 -day, instead of proposed 10 -day, max for landlords to submit response forms. • Eliminate the $75 rent increase threshold and maintain existing rent increase threshold of a rent increase greater than 10%. • Formalize that rent must be paid on its effective date while tenant goes through Rent City of San Leandro Page 8 Printed on 1211/2015