San Diego City Council to vote on proposed ordinance to protect renters from eviction

SAN DIEGO (CNS) – The San Diego Metropolis Council will vote Tuesday on an ordinance proposed by San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria and Metropolis Council President Sean Elo-Rivera to offer protections to renters from eviction so long as they proceed to pay lease and adjust to their lease.

Elo-Rivera and Gloria revealed the Residential Tenant Protections Ordinance to Forestall Displacement and Homelessness final week, saying it’s a step towards addressing the dual housing and homelessness crises town faces.

“San Diegans who’re paying their lease and abiding by their lease mustn’t reside in worry of eviction,” Elo-Rivera mentioned. “Sadly, too usually, San Diego renters are being evicted regardless of following the principles. These evictions trigger huge monetary and emotional misery to households and may result in displacement and put individuals vulnerable to homelessness. This ordinance supplies the protections that San Diego renters want and deserve.”

The ordinance took enter from tenants rights advocates and the Southern California Rental Housing Affiliation and can deliver town’s legal guidelines as much as these set by the rent-capping Meeting Invoice 1482 — in some instances surpassing it, the mayor and council president mentioned.

“This ordinance will assist tackle the truth that we have now individuals changing into newly homeless quicker than we will get individuals housed,” Gloria mentioned. “I am extraordinarily grateful to have had the lively participation and enter in crafting this framework by rental housing trade stakeholders to make sure it is possible and can meet the target of creating housing safer for 1000’s of San Diegans vulnerable to changing into homeless.”

The draft ordinance would apply protections from day certainly one of a lease with exemptions for short-term leases, provide monetary help to tenants from landlords when a tenant’s lease is terminated via no fault of their very own and have accountability measures to punish these violating tenant protections.

In March 2023, 832 individuals had been housed whereas 1,260 individuals entered homelessness for the primary time, officers mentioned. For greater than a 12 months in San Diego, the variety of individuals changing into homeless has outpaced these discovering houses.

“This report exhibits our area has reached a sobering milestone: March 2023 marks one 12 months since we have had a month the place extra individuals had been housed than skilled homelessness for the primary time,” Regional Activity Drive on Homelessness CEO Tamera Kohler mentioned when the duty pressure’s month-to-month report got here out Monday. “At the same time as we proceed to deal with individuals each day, with March seeing our highest housing numbers in seven months, it is clear that we aren’t maintaining with the inflow of latest individuals coming into homelessness.

“We have to do rather more to fulfill the necessity and match the scope and scale of our response to struggle homelessness in our group,” she added.

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