Repeal of the Rent Registry program
Summary
The council voted to scrap the two-year-old rent registry, which staff said collected stale data with only 67% compliance and no real enforcement. A new rent review program with a mediation board is being drafted, but Pineda argued the registry should be fixed and kept instead.
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Last discussed Jun 1, 2026.
Impact analysis
Staffing limits mean the city can run either the registry or the new rent review program — not both; repeal redirects existing capacity to rent review.
Tenants stand to gain a mediation-based rent review process, while landlords avoid a redundant registration fee.
Pineda argued vulnerable tenants lose a potential baseline data and enforcement tool if the registry is repealed without replacement first.
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