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Housing commission backs 3 months relocation pay for no-fault evictions, adds small-owner carve-out
Summary
Sunnyvale’s Housing Commission voted to recommend the City Council amend Sunnyvale Municipal Code chapter 19.71 to require three months’ relocation assistance for no‑fault just‑cause tenant displacements, while exempting sole‑proprietor landlords with seven or fewer units.
Sunnyvale’s Housing Commission voted to recommend the City Council amend Sunnyvale Municipal Code chapter 19.71 to require three months’ relocation assistance for no-fault just-cause tenant displacement, with a carve‑out exempting sole‑proprietor owners of seven or fewer rental units.
Affordable housing manager Ernie DiFrenci told the commission the city’s ordinance, adopted in 2023, mirrors California’s AB 1482 with two differences: Sunnyvale’s code covers all rental units regardless of construction date, and it requires two months’ relocation assistance where state law requires one. DiFrenci summarized outreach and legal context, saying “as of April 1, 2024, Senate Bill 567 took effect, which already provided additional enhanced tenant protections.”
DiFrenci told commissioners the city posted a…
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