{"id":23622,"date":"2024-05-29T09:21:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T16:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=23622"},"modified":"2024-06-03T13:14:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T20:14:57","slug":"rent-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/rent-control\/","title":{"rendered":"With more than 6,300 signatures, Redwood City residents seek rent control vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23627\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23627\" style=\"width: 656px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23627 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-3.jpeg\" alt=\"With more than 6,300 signatures, Redwood City residents seek rent control vote\" width=\"656\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-3.jpeg 656w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-3-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-3-16x12.jpeg 16w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-3-150x113.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Civic coalitions have submitted 6,395 voter signatures to the Redwood City Clerk in an effort to pressure the City Council to put a rent control resolution on the November ballot. Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.affordableredwoodcity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> affordableredwoodcity.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Listen to this note:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-23622-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Viviana-4181943.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Viviana-4181943.mp3\">https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Viviana-4181943.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Civic coalitions have submitted 6,395 voter signatures to the Redwood City Clerk in an effort to pressure the City Council to put a rent control resolution on the November ballot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the Affordable Redwood City organization, the proposal seeks to keep the city affordable, diverse and vibrant for those who live, work or study there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this regard, it details that the rent control resolution:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keeps Redwood City rents affordable and protects tenants from massive rent increases.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Provides a fair rental return for our local family landlords.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prevents unfair evictions by protecting tenants who follow the rules.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Help people put down roots and support strong neighborhoods in Redwood City by preventing displacement.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can only be changed or amended by a vote of you, the people, not the government.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faith in Action Bay Area leaders and community partners said rent increases will be limited to a reasonable amount so residents can focus on making ends meet without fear of their rent increasing each year, while ensuring a fair return for mom-and-pop landlords.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23628\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23628\" style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23628 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"653\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-4.jpeg 653w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-4-300x222.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-4-16x12.jpeg 16w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-4-150x111.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-4-485x360.jpeg 485w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faith in Action Bay Area leaders and community partners said rent increases will be limited to a reasonable amount so residents can focus on making ends meet without fear of their rent going up each year, while ensuring a fair return for mom-and-pop landlords. Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.affordableredwoodcity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> affordableredwoodcity.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They detailed that \u201cit will also protect tenants from unfair evictions and address the problems of harassment by unscrupulous corporate landlords that have been well documented in Redwood City for years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After tenants move into a home, landlords could raise rent each year by no more than 5 percent (or 60 percent of the inflation rate based on the Consumer Price Index, whichever is lower).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23626\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23626\" style=\"width: 649px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23626 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"649\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-2.jpeg 649w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-2-300x231.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-2-16x12.jpeg 16w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-2-150x116.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Landlords can request a larger rent increase if their operating expenses have increased. This measure does not limit rent increases between tenancies. Single-family homes, condominiums, and all new units built since 1995 are exempt from the rent stabilization portion of this measure. Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.affordableredwoodcity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> affordableredwoodcity.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landlords can request a larger rent increase if their operating expenses have increased. This measure does not limit rent increases between tenancies. Single-family homes, condominiums, and all new units built since 1995 are exempt from the rent stabilization portion of this measure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe measure clarifies and strengthens the \u2018just cause for eviction,\u2019 requiring landlords to provide one of a list of approved reasons before evicting a tenant, to prohibit arbitrary and unfair evictions that destabilize families and neighborhoods. It also provides fair relocation benefits to tenants who are evicted for a reason that is not their fault,\u201d they state in their statement. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.affordableredwoodcity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">web site<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They noted that the Redwood City Manager and City Council will oversee the city&#039;s rental program that will set annual guidelines, provide community education, connect tenants and landlords with legal services, collect data on rental rates, and oversee the petition and hearing process.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23625\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23625\" style=\"width: 866px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23625 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"866\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-1.jpeg 866w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-1-295x300.jpeg 295w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-1-768x780.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-1-12x12.jpeg 12w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-1-150x152.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-1-300x305.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/control-de-alquileres-1-696x707.jpeg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 866px) 100vw, 866px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">They noted that the Redwood City Manager and City Council will oversee the city&#039;s rental program that will set annual guidelines, provide community education, connect tenants and landlords with legal services, collect data on rental rates, and oversee the petition and hearing process. Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.affordableredwoodcity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> affordableredwoodcity.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is worth noting that the 6,395 signatures of registered voters collected and submitted to City Hall on Tuesday, May 21, are well above the 4,389 required to place the referendum on the ballot, in addition to having several months before the deadline to submit proposals, which is in August.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the signatures were submitted, the petitions were counted by the City Clerk&#039;s Office staff at the Redwood City Library, with the petitioners present.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once the necessary signatures were confirmed, they were accepted. Now all that remains is to verify them, and if so, the city council will vote to determine whether the proposal will be on the November ballot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/agricultural-worker-housing-2\/\">Contract awarded for almost $11.5 million to prepare land for housing for Half Moon Bay agricultural workers<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escucha esta nota: &nbsp; Coaliciones civiles han presentado 6 mil 395 firmas de votantes al secretario de Redwood City con la intenci\u00f3n de presionar al ayuntamiento para que en la boleta electoral de noviembre se pueda decidir sobre una propuesta de resoluci\u00f3n de control de alquileres. De acuerdo con la organizaci\u00f3n Affordable Redwood City, la [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":23627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-cover"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23622"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23736,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23622\/revisions\/23736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}