SR 08-27-2019 13D 13.D
August 27, 2019
Council Meeting: August 27, 2019 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 27, 2019
13.D Request of Councilmembers Winterer and McKeown that the Council direct
staff to develop the necessary ordinances and/or resolutions to require
relocation benefits for those tenants in duplexes and triplexes who are
constructively evicted due to owner occupancy decontrol of their units and
to provide those income-qualified tenants who must relocate priority on the
City's affordable housing waitlist.
August 26, 2019
Re: Item 13-D, 8/27/19 – Tenant Protections – SUPPORT
Dear Mayor and Councilmembers,
We urge you to support and develop the necessary ordinances and/or resolutions to
assist tenants by requiring relocation benefits for those tenants in duplexes and triplexes who
are constructively evicted when an owner occupies a unit on the property, obtains an
exemption from rent control, and then raises the tenant’s rent beyond rent-control’s limits
forcing them to move.
We suggest that relocation payments for the units other than the one the owner moved
into should be as much as the owner-occupied eviction standard.
Income qualified tenants who are forced to move due to this type of constructive
eviction should be placed on the City’s affordable housing waitlist with priority.
In accordance with other eviction protections, seniors, disabled persons, and families
with a child in the school district should not have to move for one year, or be subject to the
construction eviction increase during that year. Any and all other eviction protections should
continue to apply.
Thank you for taking this important action to strengthen tenant protections.
Patricia Hoffman Denny Zane
Co-Chair, Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights Co-Chair, Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights
Item 13-D
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