What: a 2019 order from former Councilor Konstantina B. Lukes asking the City Manager to have the City Solicitor give a legal opinion on how a residential rent control program could be instituted and what its effects would be.
Where it stands: tabled since 2019-10-15; no action taken on 2026-09-15.
Next: none scheduled; it sits on the tabled-items list at every meeting.
History
Held under privilege in September 2019 and tabled on 2019-10-15.
Public comment
Speakers keep citing it as evidence that rent control is stalled.
David Webb said on 2026-09-15 that it has been tabled for seven years.
Other speakers tied rent control and tenant protections to the Public Camping Ordinance debate.
Log
2026-09-22 - City Council — Item 19a: no action taken. During the camping ordinance debate Robert A. Bilotta said the answer to homelessness is affordable housing and rent control and asked to take the tabled Office of Housing Stability order (19c) off the table (the journal shows no action on 19c).
2026-09-15 - City Council — Item 10a, no action taken. Webb (remote) noted it had been tabled for seven years; Abby Mortillaro and other speakers called for rent control as homelessness prevention.