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provide relocation assistance to households displaced by those projects. There is currently no State mandate for landlords to assist displaced tenants by compensating for relocation costs. While an unanticipated move may be challenging for any tenant, it is especially difficult for extremely low, very low and low income households. The ordinance requires a minimum of three months’ rent to assist low income tenants with first and last month’s rent and a security deposit for securing a replacement unit in cases of displacement. The ordinance requirements provide an opportunity for lower income households to find alternative housing. The ordinance is intended to avoid impacting “Mom and Pop” landlords by exempting properties with four units or less. While not directly a strategy to reduce potential displacement of tenants, since the payment is made after eviction occurs, the amount of the relocation and any other requirements for the landlord can provide a deterrent to displacement. Requirement to Provide Relocation Assistance The Relocation Assistance Ordinance includes a number of components requiring landlords to provide relocation assistance to lower income tenants, defined as households earning eighty percent (80%) or less of the Area Median Income (“AMI”). The number of rental units displaced or that will be displaced that would trigger relocation assistance requirements is one or more rental units on properties with five or more units by residential households within a one-year period as the result of or to enable any of the following: · The landlord seeks to withdraw all rental housing units from the rental housing market; · The landlord seeks to recover possession to demolish or otherwise remove a residential rental housing unit from residential rental housing use; · The landlord seeks to recover possession to remodel, renovate or rehabilitate the unit(s) resulting in permanent displacement of tenants; · The landlord seeks the conversion of a building into a condominium, community apartment or stock cooperative; or · A change of use of real property from a residential use to a nonresidential use that requires a permit from the city Relocation assistance is not applicable as the result of the following: · A conversion of any portion of a mobile home park; · A landlord’s compliance with an enforcement order of the City’s Chief Building Official for which the property owner has been ordered to pay relocation expenses pursuant to Health and Safety Code §17975, et seq., or any other state or federal law; 8.A. - Page 5