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Glendale staff outline tenant-protection rules and warn emergency-housing vouchers may end without HUD funds
Summary
City staff explained the local rental-rights ordinance (just cause, right to lease, rent-based termination, intentional-disrepair remedies and rent-reduction rules), detailed relocation-assistance formulas and exemptions, and said Emergency Housing Voucher funding is short; a council report is planned for April.
Glendale housing staff laid out the city’s rental-rights program and its relocation-assistance rules at a public summit, and warned that Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) funding provided through HUD has come up short and could force changes to assistance for participating households.
"There are five major provisions for the rental-rights program," said Sipan Zadorian, housing supervisor for the City of Glendale. He described just-cause eviction protections, a right-to-lease requirement, rent-based termination rules, intentional-disrepair remedies and rent reductions when services are removed. Zadorian said the city’s program is intended to reduce displacement and stabilize housing.
Under the local rules, landlords cannot evict tenants without an enumerated reason. Zadorian outlined two categories of just-cause evictions — at-fault (nonpayment, lease breach, nuisance, illegal activity, unauthorized subtenancy, denial of access, prohibited smoking) and no-fault (major demolition or rehabilitation, owner…
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