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Report regarding establishing a conversion process including noticing and relocation benefits in the event of single room occupancy hotel and mobile home park closures, redevelopments, or changes of use. (Katie Lan, Management Analyst II)
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RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends the Joint Housing Standing Committee of the City Council and Planning Commission consider and provide guidance on establishing a permit process for single room occupancy hotels and mobile home parks proposed to be converted, demolished, and/or redeveloped. The intention of the policies is to establish streamlined administrative processes for the City to enforce noticing and relocation benefit requirements for residents displaced from these housing types.
BACKGROUND
South San Francisco is home to two unique types of naturally occurring affordable housing - mobile homes and single room occupancy (SRO) hotels. When a mobile home park closes or is converted to another use, its residents are displaced. Due to the complicated rental and ownership nature of these parks, displaced mobile home owners often face the difficult choice of whether to abandon their home or move their home to another mobile home park, often an expensive and onerous process. Likewise, when an SRO hotel closes due to conversion or redevelopment, its residents are also displaced. (SRO hotels are residential properties where individual tenants rent small, single rooms with shared bathrooms and often shared kitchens, often providing naturally occurring affordable housing for lower-income households.) Both of these types of housing are vulnerable to closure and redevelopment due to changing market conditions. SRO hotels, particularly in South San Francisco, are aging developments. As SRO owners seek to sell these properties, residents are increasingly faced with the challenge of finding limited affordable housing options.
SROs and Mobile Homes in South San Francisco
The city is home to at least seven currently occu...
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