Special Committee on Housing Policy
TL;DR
The City Council's Special Committee on Housing Policy focused on protecting renters during the COVID-19 pandemic. They approved a new policy preventing landlords from discriminating against tenants based on eviction history during 2020-2021 and passed the 2021 One Year Action Plan for affordable housing.
Key Decisions
- Rental Anti-Discrimination Amendment Held on Agenda
- 2021 Affordable Housing Action Plan Passed
Agenda
- PUBLIC OBSERVANCE OF MEETINGS Members of the City Council may attend this meeting via videoconference. Any closed session may be held via teleconference. The public can observe this meeting at the links provided below. Applicants and citizens wishing to participate have the option of attending each meeting or they may do so through the videoconference platform ZOOM, using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84530222968
- HELD IN COMMITTEE
- 210055 Amending Article XIX, “Healthy Rental Homes” by repealing Section 34-848.1, “Prohibitions” and replacing it with a new section of like name and subject matter containing a new subsection (g), for the purpose of preventing the failure to rent or lease a rental unit based in whole or in part on prior evictions or other actions for failure to pay rent that occurred between February 1, 2020 and August 31, 2021.OrdinanceAction: Hold on Agenda
Hold on Agenda
- 210111 Approving the 2021 One Year Action Plan (“Plan”) in accordance with the National Affordable Housing Act of 1990, as amended, and authorizing submittal to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for its consideration.ResolutionAction: Immediate Adoption Passed
Immediate Adoptionto the Council due back on 3/18/2021
- ADDITIONAL BUSINESS
- Adjournment