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Renter advocate urges council to adopt inspection, assistance and rent-limit powers to address Richmond housing crisis
Summary
Gustavo Espinosa, a renter and community organizer with the Legal Aid Justice Center, urged Richmond City Council to adopt three measures — a proactive rental inspection program, a robust rental-assistance/family crisis fund and authority to limit rent increases — to address unsafe housing, predatory landlords and mass evictions.
Gustavo Espinosa, a renter in Richmond’s Second District and a community organizer with the Legal Aid Justice Center, used the council’s public comment period on April 28 to press council members to adopt three policy interventions he said the city needs to address what he called a “very serious housing crisis.”
“We need an effective and proactive rental inspection program so that people have a safe place to live,” Espinosa said during his three-minute public comment. He…
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