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REPORT - URGENCY ORDINANCE TEMPORARILY REGULATING TENANT EVICTIONS IN THE CITY OF SANTA ROSA
BACKGROUND: The fires destroyed approximately 5% of the City’s housing stock. The sudden and substantial loss of residential units, both rental and owner-occupied, exacerbated the City’s already existing housing shortage and further disrupted an already unstable rental market. There is evidence that the rental market is further skewed by the presence of insurance proceeds, which may allow some households displaced by the fire to afford higher rents, while increasing the risk that other households may be displaced or priced out of the market.
Staff of Housing and Community Services has received multiple reports that some landlords may be taking advantage of the exceptional circumstances to evict existing lower income tenants in order to rent, at significantly higher rates, to insured households displaced by the fires. The combination of the City’s extremely low vacancy rates and the sudd...
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