[img]2283|right|Mayor Jeff Cooper||no_popup[/img]With the founder of www.CulverCityRentControl.com saying that hundreds of likeminded have signed on, will this influence – read: soften – the City Council that is adamantly opposed to any regulation?
“It shouldn’t, though it may for some of the people,” says Mayor Jeff Cooper.
“For me, it doesn’t. I will be really frank: It doesn’t.”
How would Hizzoner respond if rent control advocate, protesting the status quo at Monday evening’s 7 o’clock City Council meeting?
“Since we don’t have an agendized item on that subject, I would thank them for their comments, as I do for anyone who speaks on a non-agendized item,” Mr. Cooper said.
The mayor acknowledged that once he “took a gander at their website.”
The first priority of www.CulverCityRentControl.com is a novel concept.
Their four listed objectives:
- A cap on the percentage of allowable rental increase, tied into the Consumer Price Index.
- A prohibition of more than one rental increase per year.
- Only just cause evictions will be permitted.
- That relocation fees be paid by the landlord in the event the tenants are required to move through no fault of their own and said fees be tied to a sliding scale dependent on how long the tenant has lived at the property.
What does Mr. Cooper make of the CPI idea?
Not only is that notion unreasonable, he said further:
“I looked at all four objectives, and I don’t agree with any of them.”
Flowing to a related subject, the mayor said that “some things were well thought out when we started the Landlord Tenant Mediation Board a long time ago. It does a good job to really handle the issues that come up.
“Is it going to satisfy everybody? No.
“Sometimes people get displaced, and that is really sad,” Mr. Cooper said. “But for the greater good of everyone, it is the most fair way.”
