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Rules committee continues tenant-reoccupancy ordinance after supervisor seeks changes
Summary
The Rules Committee duplicated and continued part of an ordinance to add a preference in city affordable housing programs for tenants temporarily evicted for capital-improvement work, after Supervisor Aaron Peskin asked to split and amend the file to address administrative hearing findings and applicability.
Supervisor Aaron Peskin on Monday asked the Rules Committee to split and continue parts of an ordinance meant to protect tenants displaced for capital-improvement or rehabilitation work, citing what he said were widespread temporary displacements that became permanent.
"Since 2017 ... some 400 over 400 temporary capital improvement displacements," Peskin said, adding many exceeded the three‑month limit for temporary displacement and in practice often became permanent, removing rent‑controlled units from the market.
The measure, which the clerk read into the record, would add a preference in the city's affordable housing programs for tenants temporarily evicted for capital work and require landlords who regain possession to provide evidence that displaced tenants were offered the right to reoccupy their units. Peskin told colleagues he wanted to "duplicate the file," keep the neighborhood‑preference parts in committee and forward Chapter 37 with amendments to clarify the role and findings required of administrative law judges.
After no members of the public requested to speak, a committee member moved to adopt Peskin's procedural request; the motion passed "without objection." Chair Supervisor Hillary Ronan then moved to continue the substituted piece to the call of the chair and the original file to the Rules Committee meeting next week so that substantive Chapter 37 edits — which the city attorney had deemed substantive — could be finalized.
The committee recorded the continuance; the ordinance will appear on the Board of Supervisors agenda on Oct. 8 unless otherwise noted and parts of the legislation will return to Rules Committee as directed by the chair.
The committee did not take final action on the underlying ordinance; members said the split and one‑week continuance were intended to give staff and the city attorney time to resolve substantive edits and the administrative process language.
The committee's next Rules meeting will include the continued item on tenant reoccupancy preference for further action.
