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Annual Rent Review Program Evaluation FY 2015-2016 <br /> <br />Page 2 of 13 <br /> <br />2013-2014 as a result of staff reductions due to the State’s elimination of Redevelopment Agencies. <br /> <br />The 131 inquiries in FY 2015-2016 (93 tenant and 38 landlord) is a 38% increase from the 95 <br />inquiries (75 tenant and 20 landlord inquiries) received in FY 2014-2015. Additionally, the 107 <br />rent review requests received by the City in FY 2015-2016 is a 65% increase from the 65 requests the City received in FY 2014-2015. Lastly, the Rent Review Board presided over 54% more rent <br />review board cases as it heard 40 cases in FY 2015-2016 compared to the 26 cases in FY 2014- <br />2015. <br /> <br /> <br />Amendments to the San Leandro Rent Review Ordinance <br />Effective March 17, 2016, as approved by the San Leandro City Council, the San Leandro Rent <br />Review Ordinance was amended. The amendments included the following: <br /> <br /> New eligibility thresholds for a rent review hearing: 1. A rent increase greater than 7%, or <br />2. At least 2 rent increases in a 12-month period. <br /> <br /> Utility charges, including Ratio Utility Billing System (RUBS), upon initial conversion, <br />are considered a rent increase and will be used for assessing eligibility for review by the Rent Review Board. <br /> <br /> Eligible residential properties for rent review include tenant-occupied duplex, triplex, and <br />4-plex units (at least 2 rental units in a parcel). <br /> <br /> Landlords are now required to: <br />1. Provide tenants the “Notice of Availability of Rent Review” (Required Notice) in <br />English, Spanish, and Chinese. <br />2. Properly re-notice tenants if they provided improper rent increase notices. <br />CA Civil Code Sections 827(b)(1)(B),(2),(3); Code of Civil Procedure Section 1013 <br />require a landlord to either personally deliver the rent increase notice to tenant or <br />post and mail the rent increase notice to tenant and give additional 5 days’ notice. <br /> <br />3. Submit their response forms within 10 calendar days from their receipt of their <br />tenants’ rent review hearing request forms, or rent increase is void. <br /> Tenants are required to: <br />1. Request a rent review hearing within 21 calendar days of receipt (versus 15 days <br />in the original ordinance) of a notice of rent increase. <br />2. Pay the rent increase on the effective date (or another agreed upon date), but may receive rental credit. <br /> <br /> Retaliatory Eviction language is incorporated in a new, separate section. Eviction <br />proceedings against a tenant for exercising his or her rights under the Ordinance is <br />considered a retaliatory eviction. <br />130