RE: County Board of Supervisors Vote on January 24th

The Alameda County Supervisors will vote oneJanuary 24, 2023 will vote on new ordinances for rental property. These ordinances represent new restrictive guidlines that private property owners must accommodate.. These restrictions are to accommodate and appeal to a small number of people who have criminal records.. These ordinances also establish a bureaucratic board to monitor rental statistics and histories that will be used to push paper and control the rental market. This would be an added expense to Alameda County property owners and prospective tenants. The ordinances give protection to people with a criminal record, but provide to protection for the general public.

Do you want to be living on property with Axe murderers, gang members exposed to your 87 year old mother, gang member activity. How does this benefit property owners and other tenants? It doesn’t. How does it help potential renters? It doesn’t. Property owners will be frustrated with restrictive control. Property owners will be less motivated to improve and maintain rental property. Resulting in less property being available. This will make the market tighter and that will equal higher rents. I am asking the Supervisors to consider putting yourself in the situation of being a prospective rental property owner and imagine you are the one with the AXE MURDERER living with you.

Maybe time could be better spent improving government owner property into low income housing.

–Trish Desloover, Castro Valley