SR 08-14-2018 13E 13.E
August 14, 2018
Council Meeting: August 14, 2018 Santa Monica, California
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CITY CLERK’S OFFICE - MEMORANDUM
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Denise Anderson-Warren, City Clerk, Records & Elections Services
Department
Date: August 14, 2018
13.E Request of Councilmembers McKeown and Himmelrich that the City
Council direct staff to examine our statutory renter protections for outdated
definitions and compensations, in light of rapidly intensifying market
pressures on local rents, with special attention directed at but not limited
to:
· relocation compensation for renters evicted through no fault of their own, as by
an Ellis Act removal
· our definition of what constitutes “corporate housing” or “short-term rentals,”
prohibited uses that erode our stock of true residential rentals
· code requirements for room sizes and other parameters of legally habitable
permanent housing
· respond systematically to related violations and/or abuses by landlords acting in
bad faith over time
· manipulations of the long-term status of units in “TORCA” buildings, where
tenants are supposed to have protected status
…and return to the Council as soon as possible, combining this direction with the
recent direction to prepare for the possible repeal of the Costa-Hawkins Act,
recognizing that the financial climate on rental housing is particularly volatile, and
that a significant number of resident renters may be at increased risk in the near
future.