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Ordinance amending and restating in its entirety Chapter 8.70 Property Owner Obligations with Respect to Tenants Displaced from Unsafe or Substandard Units of the South San Francisco Municipal Code.
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WHEREAS, the City of South San Francisco City Council adopted Chapter 8.70 of the Municipal Code in 2019 in an effort to assist tenant households who are required to be displaced from their residential rental units as a result of conditions rendering the units uninhabitable; and
WHEREAS, tenants displaced due to uninhabitable or unsafe conditions are often required to do so immediately and suffer a financial burden because of the acute lack of resources available for locating and securing suitable relocation housing. Additional hardship is often caused by lack of safe and decent comparably sized and located housing at an affordable rent; and
WHEREAS, recognizing this hardship, both the State of California and local jurisdictions throughout the state have attempted to adequately address the matter legislatively but the urgent need for safe and affordable housing in the City persists; and
WHEREAS, through its application of Chapter 8.70 since 2019, the City has identified modifications required to adequately and efficiently implement the original intent of providing relocation assistance to residential tenants displaced due to uninhabitable or unsafe conditions; and
WHEREAS, the City has surveyed other jurisdiction's procedures, gained feedback from the Anti-Displacement Community Advisory Committee, and learned from implementation of the 2019 ordinance to develop amendments to Chapter 8.70 by which relocation assistance determinations will be made with more clarity, assistance is provided to tenants in a manner that attempts to avoid homelessness, and the appeals process will be streamlined to better serve the City and its residents while preserving limited City resources; and
WHEREAS, if a landlord is obliged under this Chapter or any State or feder...
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