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Affordable Housing Commission outlines rental-inspection push, surveys landlords and tenants
Summary
Former commission chair Dr. Spielz presented the Affordable Housing Commission’s annual report and launched an ad-hoc rental inspection subcommittee, reporting roughly 430 tenant survey responses and a 30% landlord response rate; the group plans data analysis this summer and a final report in the fall.
Dr. Spielz, former chair of the Athens Affordable Housing Commission, told the council April 13 that the commission spent the past year expanding outreach, advising on the city’s vacant-property ordinance and forming a rental inspection processes subcommittee to review code, inspections and complaint workflows. The subcommittee was established by resolution as a one-year ad hoc group with seven members and a volunteer research team that includes three Ph.D. volunteers and statisticians.
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