How to get adv notice about rent control in agenda of City Council Meeting (San Jose: low income)

[homebuyer101]

Hi,

May 13 there was a City Council meeting where rent control was discussed. Many renters in SJ did not know about it and could not make it. Is there a forum or any other way by which we can know about these meetings in advance?

Renters, apartment owner square off over San Jose rent control - San Jose Mercury News

[NoMoreSnowForMe]

Perhaps the city council has an email notification for upcoming agendas?

You might be able to get yourself on the next agenda to discuss the problem of proper notice to the public.

[justinbro2002]

It's not fair to expect landlords to subsidize low income renters, let supply and demand dictate what rents landlords can rent their properties for. If you can't afford to live in San Jose or the bay area then move to another part of the country where it is cheaper to live.

[North Beach Person]

It may not have been an agenda item but was brought up in relation to something else or as a question from a member or the public. I can't tell since, as a brand new member, your link won't work.

Many local governments, and I don't know about San Jose specifically, do post meeting agendas on their websites prior to a meeting.

[Heidi60]

Google is your friend:

https://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=3549

[mysticaltyger]

San Francisco has strict rent control. Housing isn't any cheaper up there. Rent control benefits one group of tenants at the expense of another and ultimately discourages the very thing that limits rent increases--the creation of new housing supply...This ultimately costs everyone more.

Tenant friendly laws also mean many units are left vacant because lots of small time landlords don't think it's worth the hassle...and this info is coming from centrist or left leaning publications...so please, no "right wing propaganda" accusations.


....with an estimated 30 percent of the city’s rental properties owned by mom-and-pop investors with four units or less, an unintended consequence of rent control is becoming more prevalent: people of relatively modest means subsidizing the housing of the extraordinarily wealthy.

.....Mr. Karnilowicz estimated that 5 percent of the city’s 212,000 rental units (about 10,600) are kept vacant by landlords who would rather not deal with rent control (others estimate the number is higher, about 25,000 units). He said that many owners would rent those homes if there were reforms

....The city’s last comprehensive research, undertaken in 2000, found that one-fourth of households in rent-controlled apartments earned more than $100,000 a year

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/us...nces.html?_r=0

[Lanienguyen]

mysticaltyger, I totally agree with you.
San Francisco: $3,400 a month, up 9.8 percent. Occupancy rate 95.1 percent
Santa Clara County: $2,369 a month, up 10.7 percent. Occupancy rate 95.8 percent.
Bay Area apartment rents at record high - San Jose Mercury News
San Francisco with Rent Control is 33% higher in Rent comparing to Santa Clara, so what is the point of rent control?
I currently has a condo for rent 2Br/Bath with Golf court view... and only rented at $1600 to the Section 8.
Of course, I can rent it much higher price $2400-2500. But I do not because I had been a renter for 20 years and I have not increase any penny since I put it on rental.
Rent control is meaningless to me. But I would rather see it in a free market... Supply and Demand.
Rent Control will help some renters.. but it will hurt the other renters. ( like those in SF)