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San Buenaventura adopts anti‑harassment ordinance to strengthen tenant protections
Summary
After stakeholder workshops and Planning Commission review, the City Council unanimously approved an ordinance defining landlord harassment, creating civil‑penalty and administrative‑citation pathways, and funding education and mediation through the Housing Rights Center and partner organizations.
The San Buenaventura City Council unanimously approved an anti‑harassment ordinance intended to give tenants a local enforcement pathway and to clarify landlord responsibilities.
Staff described a multi‑year process: direction from the council under Housing Element Program 32, stakeholder workshops with landlords, tenant advocates and property managers, Planning Commission review, and a housing‑subcommittee review. The proposed ordinance defines tenant harassment as intentional conduct by a property owner designed to intimidate, annoy, harass, injure, provoke or vex a person that serves no lawful purpose.…
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