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Albany housing staff asks advisory commission to sequence review of tenant-protection measures
Summary
City staff outlined five tenant-protection program areas for the Housing Advisory Commission to evaluate and recommended an order of review focused first on nondiscrimination/anti-harassment and just-cause eviction rules, followed by rent stabilization, the city's rent review program, and access to legal counsel.
City planning staff on Feb. 5 asked the Albany Housing Advisory Commission (HAC) to begin a phased review of tenant-protection programs that the City Council directed the commission to study as part of implementing the city's certified housing element.
Leslie Mendez, Albany planning and building manager, told the commission the housing element implementation plan and council direction call for HAC to evaluate five program areas: nondiscrimination and anti-harassment rules, just-cause eviction protections, rent stabilization, the existing local rent-review program, and options to expand access to legal counsel.
"This housing element outlines an assessment of the city's housing needs," Mendez said in the presentation. She said staff recommends the commission…
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