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Supervisors back $52 fee for 1-2 unit rental housing inspections to bolster underfunded DBI
Summary
The board voted to pass on first reading an ordinance creating a $52 per-unit surcharge for 1- and 2-unit rental dwellings to help the Department of Building Inspection recoup enforcement costs and retain housing inspectors after testimony that DBI is underfunded by more than $2 million.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted on first reading to amend the administrative code to authorize the Department of Building Inspection to charge a $52 per-unit fee to recover the cost of ongoing housing code enforcement services for one- and two-unit rental dwellings.
Supervisor David Campos, who presented the ordinance, said the fee responds to a staffing and funding shortfall at DBI: "The Department of Building Inspection is underfunded. And there was a study that recently pointed out that the department is underfunded by over $2,000,000." Campos described the $52 per-unit fee as a modest measure that recovers only a fraction of enforcement costs and said the fee was…
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