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Page 1 of 13 <br /> <br />Annual Rent Review Program Evaluation Report (July 2015 – June 2016) <br />Rent Review Board Hearings <br />From July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016, ECHO Housing and City staff addressed 93 tenant and <br />38 landlord inquiries for a total of 131 inquiries relating to the City's policies on rent increases and its Rent Review Program, including 107 renters who applied for Rent Review Board hearings. Of these 107 hearing requests (see attached “Monthly Status Report of Rent Review Activities” for <br />case details): <br /> <br /> 14 (or 13%) cases were ineligible for a rent review hearing; <br /> 3 (or 3%) cases required landlords to properly re-notice as required by Rent Review Ordinance <br /> 5 (or 5%) cases were scheduled for a hearing (after June 30, 2016); <br /> 18 (or 17%) cases were settled without a hearing; <br /> 27 (or 25%) cases were settled prior to a schedule hearing; and <br /> 40 (or 37%) cases were heard by the Rent Review Board. <br />Of the 40 cases heard by the Rent Review Board: <br /> 27 (or 68%) cases were settled mutually; <br /> 12 (or 30%) cases were settled after the rent review hearings; and <br /> 1 (or 2%) required landlord to properly re-notice as required by Rent Review Ordinance <br /> Table 1: Rent Review Board (RRB) Case Summary (since 2006) <br /> <br />Period (June – May) Cases <br />2006-2007 1 <br />2007-2008 6 <br />2008-2009 4 <br />2009-2010 0 <br />2010-2011 0 <br />2011-2012 0 <br />2012-2013 3 <br />2013-2014 2 <br />2014-2015 26 <br />2015-2016 40 <br /> <br />ECHO Housing, a full service and nonprofit housing counseling organization that already provides <br />fair housing and tenant-landlord counseling services for the City, continued to assist in the <br />administration of the City’s Rent Review Program in fiscal year 2015-2016. ECHO Housing staff was instrumental in processing the rent review hearing request applications, communicating with <br />the landlords to obtain their rent review response forms, facilitating the rent review board hearings, <br />and educating both tenants and landlords about the City’s Rent Review Ordinance. The City began <br />contracting with ECHO Housing for the administration of the Rent Review Program in fiscal year <br />129