Atlanta City Council weighing new ‘Tenant’s Bill of Rights’

ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) – The Atlanta Metropolis Council is weighing new laws that, if handed, will strengthen tenant rights.

“It’s lengthy overdue, now that the complete nation is dealing with a housing disaster,” mentioned Councilmember Byron Amos, who’s co-sponsoring the laws. “And it’s time for the capitol metropolis of the state of Georgia to step up,” Amos mentioned in an interview with CBS46 on Monday.

Renters at the moment make up 56% of Atlanta’s residents.

The “Tenant’s Invoice of Rights”, 22-R-3708, was learn earlier than a council committee for the second time on Tuesday.

Councilmembers harassed that the laws will assist restrict the variety of renters compelled into homelessness.

“We’re starting to have a number of teams. It was once ‘housed’ and ‘unhoused.’ Now, it’s ‘about to be unhoused’ and we actually want to have a look at that as a result of now we have a inhabitants within the metropolis of Atlanta that was once known as renters, that now not have a spot to hire – and we have to handle that earlier than it turns into an epidemic,” Amos mentioned.

This invoice additionally calls on the state laws to repeal any state-level prohibition that forestalls the town of Atlanta to develop and implement a “Tenant’s Invoice of Rights.”

“Everyone knows that Georgia is a property proprietor’s secure place, nevertheless it’s the proper time [to make a change],” mentioned Amos.

Miracle Fletcher pleaded on to the Atlanta Metropolis Council to go the tenant’s invoice of rights.

“It may have helped me majorly,” mentioned Miracle, in an interview with CBS46 afterwards.

“Being in a subsidy property, not likely understanding my rights as a tenant type of left me at a drawback when it got here to my administration crew,” mentioned Fletcher.

Amos mentioned there’s a lot they’ll implement to assist tenant’s with none motion throughout the state legislature.

Nonetheless, he mentioned this laws, if handed, would implore state lawmakers to think about hire management and different important measures to assist tenants.

Amos mentioned he expects the total council to vote on the laws on June 21.

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