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Rent board receives Bay Area tenant survey: awareness high but enforcement, outreach gaps persist
Summary
The Richmond Rent Board received results of a 2024 tenant survey showing high awareness of the city's rent ordinance but also persistent enforcement and outreach gaps, especially among younger renters and some Black, Latinx and immigrant households.
The Richmond Rent Board on July 16 received a staff report on the 2024 tenant survey conducted in partnership with UC Berkeley's Othering and Belonging Institute and CSU Fullerton's Social Science Research Center. The study, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, yielded 800 completed surveys across three cities, including 400 respondents from Richmond (200 from rent-stabilized tenancies and 200 from partially covered or non-stabilized tenancies).
Executive Director Nicholas Traylor told the board the study was conducted under Richmond Municipal Code section 11.10.06(e) to assess the effects of rent stabilization. Traylor summarized the methodology: the program provided a list of over 20,000 rental addresses, a stratified sample of…
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