City officials are holding talks with landlords, tenants and housing developers to come up with new anti-displacement strategies over the next month.
MOUNTAIN VIEW — As cities across the Bay Area plan on building thousands of new homes in the next decade to deal with the ongoing housing crisis, cities like Mountain View are devising new strategies to keep low-income renters in their homes or help them find a new place to live when forced out by new developments.
That’s why Mountain View city officials are taking on a month-long discussion with renters, landlords and developers to address the ongoing threat of displacement as old apartments give way to new ones. In 2019, the city council for the first time made renter displacement a high priority, and after two study sessions held in Oct. 2019 and Sept. 2020, the city is forging ahead with talks to come up with strategies the council will consider at the start of the summer.
Right now Mountain View has some of the best tenant protections of any city in the Bay Area. The city passed a rent-control law in 2016 and extended it to mobile homes in 2022, and throughout specific development projects, it has worked to make sure renters have a place to go or assistance to relocate.
Siegel said he’s glad that these discussions are taking place now since some state protections are set to expire soon and could use some local backing too. For example, SB 330 — which requires rent-stabilized units be prepared with deed-restricted affordable ones based on the former tenant’s income — is set to sunset in 2030. And the Ellis Act, which allows demolished rent-controlled units to be replaced with “new” rent-controlled units could be bolstered by a city mandate.
“There’s a calculation there, obviously, so that you don’t lose too much money by holding apartments open while trying to get approval for your development, but that’s the way they can get around having to provide assistance to people,” Siegel said.
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