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URGENT: COUNTY PROPOSES YET ANOTHER MORATORIUM

On Tuesday October 7th, LA County's Board of Supervisors will consider an eviction moratorium "or other similar protections" for anyone who claims they are affected by ICE enforcement. This follows the county's blanket moratorium for people affected by the wildfires which was applied across the county. As you may remember, the Covid moratorium lasted 3 years and was abused by many unaffected tenants.

Please email and call the five supervisors (details below) and oppose any overreaching moratorium or other excessive attacks on our businesses. For the supervisors to use lawful federal action as an excuse to advance extremist housing agendas is unconscionable.

The County has already passed an Emergency Rent Relief Program (ERRP) to assist individuals impacted by the recent ICE activities and individuals still impacted by the wildfires. To pass an eviction moratorium would be overly broad and very damaging to rental housing providers, especially small-time owners.

An eviction moratorium does not lower the costs of providing housing. An eviction moratorium will yet again result in months of uncollected rent and will drive smaller owners who provide naturally occurring affordable housing out of business. As these properties are demolished and replaced with luxury housing by new corporate owners, the County will greatly reduce its already severely limited supply of affordable housing.

You can read Tuesday's agenda here. The eviction moratorium was item 24 at the time of writing.

Please click the blue links below to email

Supervisors and their liaison officers.

In the Subject Line, Please State "Agenda Item 24"

INACCURATE, INSULTING, AND INCOMPLETE

A wasted opportunity to help housing providers.

Last week we recommended you review the contents of the Rent Stabilization Department's "Landlord Workshop".

We are withdrawing that recommendation now that the Department has finally published the recording of the meeting, HERE. The information presented in the workshop was inaccurate and the behavior of the host was insulting.

Rent Stabilization Department Director Helen Morales made a number of false statements to housing providers who attended. Among these was the claim that non-RSO properties (typically those built since 1995) cannot increase rents by more than 5% without tenants demanding relocation payments of up to $40,000. This is completely false, as AB1482 currently permits rent increases of up to 8.0% on these properties. You can find Morales' false statement on the video at 1:05:25.

Director Morales also took a confrontational approach to housing providers, refusing to answer questions that she considered unhelpful (1:01:25), and eventually closing the meeting 30 minutes early instead of responding to questions as promised.

If you feel that this behavior is inappropriate for a department director receiving over $20,000 per month*, paid entirely by housing providers, you may write to Director Morales' two immediate supervisors:

City Manager Miguel Marquez: miguelmarquez@cityofpasadena.net

Rent Board Chair Allison Henry: ahenry.prhb@gmail.com

* Source: (Gov. Salaries)

Director Morales began working at the Rent Stabilization Department on July 1, 2024 and received 6 months of salary and benefits during the calendar year.

SAVE THE DATE - NOVEMBER 20TH

Join us for our next luncheon

We will be holding our next working lunch in Pasadena on November 20th. Save the date so you can hear from our speakers about our 2026 ballot measure to restore democratic oversight to rent regulation, as well as getting expert input on the challenges we are all facing as housing providers in Pasadena.

Details will follow in the next few weeks.

RENT REGULATION COVERS ALL RENTALS

Despite activists' promises as they solicited votes for Measure H, the RSD demands registration and a fee of $238 per year for ALL rented houses, condos and ADU's. 

Please feel free to forward this email to property owners who would like to be included on our weekly mailing list. They can email their contact info and we will add them to our database. We will never share contact info. 

In order to restore and protect property rights in Pasadena, we are asking property owners of all types to donate $10 per month per unit. For $120 per unit per year, we can help property owners and tenants in Pasadena enjoy a more sustainable rental housing industry in the decades to come.

Will you please join us?

CONTRIBUTE

Pasadena Housing Providers PAC

ID# 1464386

(NOT tax deductible)

via Check Mailed to:

Pasadena Housing Providers 

254 N. Lake Ave., Ste. 851

Pasadena CA 91101

Include OCCUPATION, EMPLOYER, ADDRESS (no P.O. Box)

and PRINT YOUR NAME below your signature.

Thank you for your support and engagement!

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