{"id":233416,"date":"2026-07-02T02:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233416\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T02:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:53:19","slug":"erie-city-council-passes-rental-ordinance-bringing-inspections-in-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233416\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie City Council passes rental ordinance, bringing inspections in-house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:WJET Erie;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"WJET Erie\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/aol_wjet_erie_articles_147.png\"\/><\/a>Updated Wed, July 1, 2026 at 8:05 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/55939bfc-5e26-4eb5-af14-eeef49de13f8.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Erie City Council passed an ordinance updating how rental inspections are carried out.<\/p>\n<p>The ordinance transitions to in-house inspections from third-party inspections.<\/p>\n<p>The language was updated to match all definitions within the city code.<\/p>\n<p>Council also changed the time frames for how often inspections will take place.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/city-of-erie-looking-to-bring-rental-inspections-in-house\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tCity of Erie looking to bring rental inspections in-house\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were happening every four years, now we\u2019re saying it\u2019s going to happen more annually. If you get two years consecutively with a clean registration and where they go into inspection, then you can move to a four-year. Whenever that property transfers to a new owner, the process starts back over,\u201d said City Council President Dr. Tyler Titus.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Titus said this will hold landlords who aren\u2019t following rules more accountable.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tFor the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Wed, July 1, 2026 at 8:05 PM UTC Erie City Council passed an ordinance updating how rental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-233416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}