San Diego City Councilman Sean Elo-Rivera and San Diego County Board of Supervisors Vice Chair Monica Montgomery Steppe will reveal a joint ordinance intended to protect renters from “junk fees” that drive up the cost of housing.<\/p>\n
The Residential Rental Price Gouging, Fee Exploitation, and Cost Transparency Ordinance is a collaborative city-county effort that would cap rental fees beyond monthly rent, ban exploitative add-on charges and “require landlords to clearly disclose the true cost of renting.”<\/p>\n
“Together, these reforms aim to promote fairness, transparency, and accountability in San Diego’s housing market,” a statement from Elo-Rivera and Montgomery Steppe read.<\/p>\n
Close to half of San Diegans rent, and — according to census data released last year — around 30% of county residents spend more than half their paychecks on housing.<\/p>\n
“In addition to high rents, many tenants face a growing number of unnecessary and deceptive fees — from processing and ‘convenience’ charges to arbitrary add-ons that make housing even more unaffordable,” the statement reads.<\/p>\n
Specifically, the ordinance would:<\/p>\n
Cap rental fees beyond monthly rent at no more than 5% of rent;<\/p>\n
Ban fees for basic services that make homes livable, such as pest control or trash collection;<\/p>\n
Require full disclosure of all rental costs in listings and lease agreements;<\/p>\n
Protect applicants and tenants from duplicate or excessive screening and processing fees; and<\/p>\n
Eliminate monthly pet fees.<\/p>\n
Following the news conference, Elo-Rivera will introduce the proposal at the San Diego City Council’s Select Committee on Addressing Cost of Living on Thursday at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n
Montgomery Steppe and co-author, Supervisor Chair Pro Paloma Tem Aguirre, will introduce the proposal at the County Board of Supervisors’ meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 4, at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego City Councilman Sean Elo-Rivera and San Diego County Board of Supervisors Vice Chair Monica Montgomery Steppe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1011,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-30063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-housing","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}