Apr. 4, 2023: Rental Housing Program Approved (First Reading)
During their Regular Meeting on April 4, 2023 City Council voted on first reading to pass the proposed Rental Housing Program and approve the appropriation of funds to support 2023 start-up costs. The second reading will be on April 18th.
To view meeting documents and/or view a video of previous meetings, please visit https://www.fcgov.com/cityclerk/agendas and click on “City Meeting Portal”. (Note: Rental Housing is listed as item No. 25 on the April. 4 Regular Meeting agenda)
To learn more about how to participate in Council meetings, please visit https://www.fcgov.com/council/councilcomments. You can also email thoughts at any time to cityleaders@fcgov.com.
Recap Feb. 28, 2023 Council Work Session - Scaled Options
During their Work Session on February 28, 2023, City Council considered three proposed options for a scaled Rental Housing Program and an appropriation to fund the start-up phase of the program. Council decided to move forward with Option 2: "Rental Registration with Delayed Proactive Inspections". Program specifics will now move to first reading on April 4th and second reading April 18th.
To view meeting documents and/or view a video of previous meetings, please visit https://www.fcgov.com/cityclerk/agendas and click on “City Meeting Portal”. (Note: Rental Housing is listed as item No. 3 on the Feb. 28 Work Session agenda)
To learn more about how to participate in Council meetings, please visit https://www.fcgov.com/council/councilcomments. You can also email thoughts at any time to cityleaders@fcgov.com.
Rental Housing Strategies#
Following a Council Work Session in October 2021, staff has begun exploring implementation of three interrelated strategies in the Housing Strategic Plan:
- Strategy 20 - Explore the option of a mandated rental license/registry program for long-term rentals and pair with best practice rental regulations
- Strategy 21 - Explore revisions to occupancy limits and family definitions in order to streamline processes and calibrate the policy to support stable, healthy, and affordable housing citywide
- Strategy 26 - Develop small landlord incentives
This work seeks to address the Greatest Challenge that "housing policies have not consistently addressed housing stability and healthy housing, especially for people who rent."
Council is currently considering adoption of a Rental Housing Program. More details about the program are available at the link below.
Timeline#
All three of the strategies being explored are "transformational" strategies in the Housing Strategic Plan. This means we expect that they will take 2+ years to fully implement.
- Council Work Session - Rental Housing Strategies
- Public Engagement
- Council Work Session - Rental Housing Program
- Program Design
- Council First Reading - Rental Housing Program
- Rental Housing Program Information Session
- Council Work Session - Scaled Options for Rental Housing Program
- Council First Reading - Rental Housing Program
- Council Second Reading - Rental Housing Program
- Council Work Session - Occupancy
Share your thoughts!#
Do you have comments, questions, or ideas to share about the Rental Housing Strategies work? Please share your thoughts below. We would love to hear from you!