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San Leandro council backs staff to advance rent registry and stabilization with funding guidance
Summary
Council directed staff to move forward with an enhanced rent-registry plus rent-stabilization program, advising a cap of 3% or 65% of CPI (whichever is lower), a 2025 base‑rent date, and a full cost‑recovery model that could use a one‑time general‑fund loan of roughly $1.3M–$2.2M and six additional FTEs.
San Leandro’s City Council on Monday gave staff majority guidance to pursue an ‘enhanced enforcement’ rent program that bundles a rent registry and a rent stabilization ordinance and to return with refined fees and a loan document after a fee study.
Community Development Director Tom Liao told the council the combined program would likely cover about 7,000 fully regulated units and, when partially regulated (Costa Hawkins) units are included, a range of about 9,000–10,000 rental units. Liao presented a one‑time general‑fund loan model to launch the program and estimated an initial loan between about $1.3 million on the optimistic side up to $2.2 million, repayable over three to six years…
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