DATE: December 19, 2024
TO: Housing Policy & Resource Committee
FROM: Acting Assistant City Manager
SUBJECT
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Implementation Update on the Residential Rent Stabilization and Tenant Protection Ordinance
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RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
That the Housing Policy & Resource Committee accepts this informational report on the implementation progress of the Residential Rent Stabilization and Tenant Protection Ordinance.
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SUMMARY
The Council approved the Residential Rent Stabilization and Tenant Protection Ordinance (RRSO) in June 2019, greatly increasing the number of Rental Units in Hayward covered by the new 5% annual rent increase threshold and creating additional protections, such as just cause eviction and prohibitions against harassing or discriminating against tenants. Additionally, in July 2020, Council adopted the Tenant Relocation Assistance Ordinance (TRAO), to ensure Hayward residents had the same protections that were afforded under the State Tenant Protection Act. Finally, the City administers the Mobilehome Space Rent Stabilization ordinance (MRSO), which was adopted in February 1980.
This report provides an informational update on the RRSO following five years of implementation, MRSO data for the same time frame, as well as the TRAO following four years of implementation. This report includes data on petitions for review of rent, as well as rent increase and termination notices, and relocation assistance cases. This report also includes an analysis of evictions in Hayward, using unlawful detainer data from the Superior Court of Alameda County. Importantly, local and state eviction moratoria have been in place for the majority of the RRSO’s implementation. Beginning with the City of Hayward residential eviction moratorium in March 2020 through April 2023, evictions have been restricted by City, County, and/or State authority.
Additionally, findings from the 2023 Implementation Update on the Residential Rent Stabilization and Tenant Protection Ordinance Report have been addressed with Council’s recent adoption of amendments to the TRAO that clarify and streamline the requirements for relocation assistance.
At this time, staff does not recommend making any new changes to the RRSO and MRSO beyond what Council already authorized in July 2020.
ATTACHMENTS
Attachment I Staff Report