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Council Member Áviles inquires about guardrails for landlord repairs
1:01:58
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Council Member Alexa Áviles raises concerns about prolonged repairs in vacated buildings and the increasing costs of emergency shelter. She asks about guardrails to ensure landlords are making good faith repair efforts to allow tenants to return to their homes.
- Highlights the issue of landlords not making repairs in vacated buildings
- Questions the increasing costs of emergency shelter for displaced tenants
- Seeks information on measures to ensure landlords are actively working on repairs
Alexa Áviles
1:01:58
Thank you so much, chairs.
1:02:01
Good afternoon, everyone.
1:02:02
Thank you for being here.
1:02:04
In terms of, I guess, along the lines of the questioning that you've just engaged in, obviously, this this issue of of prolonging repairs or not doing any repairs at all on a building that has been vacated, what we're seeing is pretty long periods of time where the city is paying for people to be in emergency shelter.
1:02:25
It seems to be that that number continues to increase.
1:02:28
So what kind of guardrails, and forgive me if you had this in your testimony because I was not here for the earlier portion, but what kind of guardrails are being put into place to ensure that landlords are engaging in in, like, reasonable good faith repair efforts on their buildings to to get tenants back because the city is paying an exorbitant amount.
1:02:53
And and, unfortunately, I have a good deal of landlords who, my first year, I'm in year four, I don't think any of those tenants have been able to return.