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Duluth council reads tenant-notice ordinance and schedules rental-licensing study session
Summary
The City Council read an ordinance to require tenant-posted notices of rights and resources and set a study session on rental licensing and enforcement; authors say the effort is intended to address tenant confusion about state rent-escrow rules and to provide alternatives to a pending ballot measure.
The Duluth City Council read, for the first time, an ordinance adding Article 5 to Chapter 29A of the Duluth City Code that would require notices to tenants about available resources and their protected rights under state law and city ordinance.
Councilor Rander, one of the ordinance authors, said the measure is intended to address tenant confusion about state rent-escrow rules (referred to in the meeting as “state statute 504b”) and to be the first step in a broader city-led response to housing concerns. “They are aware of all the work that we are doing in hopes that they will find it satisfactory,” Rander said in reference to the Duluth Tenants Union and Take Action Duluth, adding that council authors view the ballot measure proposed by tenant organizers as “systemically flawed.”
The ordinance would require posting of tenant resources in larger…
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