At its meeting on Tuesday, March 5, the Concord City Council is scheduled to consider the adoption of an ordinance on rent stabilization and just cause for eviction, which it officially introduced on Feb. 13.
The ordinance would amend Concord’s municipal code on residential tenant protection program and increase the “just cause” eviction protections, as well as expand the City’s rent registry and establish a rent stabilization program.
If approved by a majority vote, this ordinance would take effect 30 days after final adoption, on April 4, 2024.
In January 2023, the Council expressed its desire to protect the tenant community from displacement. Since then, it has held seven public meetings on this topic and has heard from dozens of property owners and tenants.
View the full 30-page ordinance.
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Time to sell and/or evict now!!!
But they made it retroactive a year so owners cannot. Anyone renting out their home is screwed
The Concord City Council is wrong on this.
As it is on everything else.
We need responsible representatives with good character values including morals and integrity.
It’s a sad day in hell when three city council members can turn a city into a rat hole.They need to go!
Also known as the Property Owners get the Shaft Ordinance.
The chickens came home to roost.
The city is Required to do this if they want to be a “sustainable city”.
All a part of the WEF. You will own Nothing, and you will be happy.
LANDLORDS ARE LEECHES, punish them
Go buy a home then.
those same landlords have made that quite difficult, even making 6 figures
What kind of cheese do you have with your whine?
If you are making 6 figures (low), you CAN buy a piece of property. Maybe not the 4 bed, + den, 3 bath and 2 car garage in the rich neighborhood, but you CAN buy that in realy nice areas. How do I know … I did it.
Thank you for sharing that! I feel we’ve all been enlightened.
This is really short-sighted.
It’s been well documented these policies drive real estate investors away and therefore renters will have fewer properties to choose from. Then what? Renters will have a longer commute should they work in this area. Either way, life gets more expensive for renters.
Sad that the slumification ordinance is likely to pass. This will surely cause landlords to maintain their properties less and lead to older parts of the city with lots of apartments decaying more.
I am a renter and even I can not get behind this.
You know that renter that lives next door or across the street and you can’t wait till they move. You better go make friends with them because they are not going anywhere soon!
Do you own a home in Concord? I was shocked when I learned the proposed regulations include single family homes and condos owned by individuals. ‘Just cause” eviction requirements including many thousands of dollars of relocation expenses, new annual fees, and significant delays and costs if you just want to move back into your home or sell it.
I watched the council meetings in December and January. Councilmember Nakamura and Birsan were leading the charge to get Oakland-style rent control and eviction restrictions implemented and Councilmember Aliano was going along with it.
I happen to agree poor tenants being told to move without a breach of lease terms deserve adequate notice and help with relocation, but these proposals are extreme and will have many unintended negative consequences for renters as well as landlords.
There are a lot of homeowners who need to rent out their homes for a few months or a few years. Temporary job relocations, grandma going to a long term care facility…yet these regulations treat all rentals, even single family homes, as permanent rentals.
BTW the city rent registry grandma will need to log into and upload her tenant notices will apparently be accessible to the public, which means lawyers will be able to quickly solicit tenants as clients and send demand letters to grandma. She may never be allowed back into her own home. This is a mess.
Now anyone temporarily moving out of their home to care for an aging relative or a job assignment will lose less by leaving their home empty rather than renting it out. Less available rentals = higher rent. Who wins? Also, if a tenant is over 62 or disabled (i.e. anxiety, obesity) the owner can never move back in unless they are also in that category. Will lead to subtle rental discrimination of elderly and disabled when selecting tenants. There are clear track records that this doesn’t work in the long run. But it does allow Edi to drone on more about how hard he had it as a kid
Government tyranny wins again!!
This horror show legislation is the arsonist-for-hire full employment act!
Corrupt fire inspectors will make out like bandits, too!
Time to clean house. Elect different representatives and get this mess undone. This will ruin Concord and the housing market. The data is clear, yet they ignored it. GET INVOLVED AND VOTE THEM OUT!
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