DATE: June 18, 2019
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: City Manager
SUBJECT
Title
Introduction of an Ordinance adding Chapter [X] of the Hayward Municipal Code to Adopt a New Residential Rent Stabilization and Tenant Protection Ordinance to Mitigate Displacement of Hayward Residents, including an Associated Budget Allocation and Updated Rent Review Fee to Administer the Program, and to Repeal the Existing Residential Rent Stabilization Ordinance No. 83-023 and the Emergency Ordinance Requiring Just Cause for Eviction Ordinance No. 19-04
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RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
That the City Council:
1. Adopt a new Residential Rent Stabilization and Tenant Protection Ordinance (RRSO) to establish a comprehensive set of rental housing policies to mitigate displacement of Hayward residents and to repeal the existing Residential Rent Stabilization Ordinance No. 83-023 and the Emergency Ordinance Requiring Just Cause for Eviction No. 19-04 (Attachment II); and
2. Adopts a Resolution Authorizing the Amendment to Resolution 19-103, the Budget Resolution for the City of Hayward Operating Budget for Fiscal Year 2020, Relating to the Transfer of the Rent Review Budget Allocation in the amount of Two Hundred and Seventy-Four Thousand Six Hundred Sixty-Eight Dollars ($274,668) from the General Fund to the Rental Housing Program Fund; and Appropriating Three Hundred and Fifty-Nine Thousand Dollars ($359,000) to the Rental Housing Program Fund to Cover the Cost of Administering the Residential Rent Stabilization and Tenant Protection Ordinance and the Mobilehome Space Rent Stabilization Ordinance (Attachment III); and
3. Adopts a Resolution Authorizing the Amendment to Resolution 19-059, the Resolution for the City of Hayward Fiscal Year 2020 Master Fee Schedule Associated with the Administration of the New Residential Rent Stabilization and Tenant Protection Ordinance and the Mobilehome Space Rent Stabilization Ordinance. (At...
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