Arcata Invites Community to Discuss Residential Rental Inspection Program
Press release from the City of Arcata:
The City of Arcata would like to invite members of the public to join us on Monday, May 23 at the D Street Neighborhood Center located at 1301 D St. in Arcata from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. to hear more from staff on the proposed Ordinance No. 1552, regarding the Residential Rental Inspection Program (RRIP). The ordinance was first introduced at the Council meeting on September 15, 2021.
The City of Arcata is seeking to create the RRIP to proactively address the issue of substandard long-term rental properties.
The Building and Engineering Department particularly encourages community members directly affected by this program, such as renters and rental property owners, to come to this in-person meeting. Members of the community can also submit their comments and suggestions directly to the department. Community input is crucial in designing and implementing a program that works for all and promotes the health and safety of City neighborhoods.
To stay up to date with the latest information regarding the RRIP you can sign up to receive eNotifications at https://www.cityofarcata.org/list.aspx. If you have any comments or suggestions, please reach out the Building and Engineering Department at [email protected] or (707)-825-2156.
The City of Arcata would like to invite members of the public to join us on Monday, May 23 at the D Street Neighborhood Center located at 1301 D St. in Arcata from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. to hear more from staff on the proposed Ordinance No. 1552, regarding the Residential Rental Inspection Program (RRIP). The ordinance was first introduced at the Council meeting on September 15, 2021.
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All of Arcata is on stolen Wiyot land and should be returned to them immediately. These “landlords” are imperialist colonizers.
I think you misspelled Arcata. It’s spelled: America.
technically it wasn’t stolen, it was conquered.
This will sure help the housing prices that everyone is bitching about in Arcata !
The housing prices are a result of the common practice of mom and pop land lording. The practice of purchasing additional single family homes as income properties creates a lower class of renters by artificially lowering housing inventory and increasing costs.Corporate land lords are easy to point the finger at, but make up only a small fraction of land lords in single family homes.
Month-to-month rentals should be limited to no more than 1% of the total number of single family homes, as far less than 1% of people prefer to be renters due to being students or traveling professionals. After considering all costs associated with home purchasing, ownership, and re-selling, anyone living in a home for more than 3-4 years is financially better off owning that home.
Most apartment units should be converted to rent-to-own. That way people can build equity, the only form of savings most Americans have today.
Ownership should be restricted to permanent residents of the county and limited to no more then two single family homes per owner. Imagine the increase in inventory if the lords had to put their additional homes on the market!
If we build more homes, the lords will simply buy them up and keep nearly half of us living as serfs. Housing inventory only considers homes currently listed for sale, not the total number of homes that exist in comparisons to the number of families who would like to own a home.
My last land lord owns 8 single family homes in Eureka and two in Arcata. I know another guy who owns close to 20 single family homes, mostly in Arcata.