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1 <br />MEMORANDUM <br />To: Housing and Human Concerns Committee <br />From: Housing and Human Concerns Committee Tenant Protection Ad Hoc <br />Subcommittee <br />Date: August 26, 2025 <br />Subject: Right to Return Recommendations <br />Executive Summary: <br />The Anti-Displacement Strategy (ADS) was adopted on June 27, 2022, after two and a half years of <br />extensive staff research and robust community and stakeholder engagement. The goal of the ADS was <br />to develop strategies to prevent and mitigate the impacts of displacement and consists of three policy <br />areas: Protection, Preservation, and Mobile Homes Preservation. At the time the ADS was being <br />finalized, five additional ideas were raised by tenant advocates and one additional idea was raised by <br />landlord advocates (six ideas in total). Since these ideas had not been fully researched, discussed with all <br />community stakeholders, or vetted from a legal or financial perspective, the City Council directed staff to <br />conduct further outreach and research into two of the six additional ideas, an anti-harassment p and the <br />right to return after substantial remodels policies, instead of including them as adopted <br />recommendations in the ADS. From ADS adoption until now, staff and the Housing and Human Concerns <br />Committee (HHCC) Tenant Protections Ad Hoc Subcommittee (Ad Hoc) have conducted research, held <br />several community meetings, issued a community survey, checked in regularly with the City Council, and <br />most recently conducted two focus groups with tenant and landlord advocacy groups on right to return <br />policy options. <br />Included in this memorandum is more detailed information on the background and timeline, an analysis <br />of the right to return options developed, feedback from recent focus groups, and a recommendation <br />from the Ad Hoc that the HHCC recommend to the City Council adoption of a right to return policy that <br />1)allows tenants to return with the same rent paid prior to the substantial remodel plus any increase(s) <br />allowed by the Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (TPA), had the tenant continuously occupied the unit, 2) <br />allows tenants to return with a rental agreement allowing new lease terms, and 3) require the following <br />noticing requirements - landlords must notify tenants within 10 days of unit readiness, tenants must <br />declare intent to return within 15 days of receiving notice, and tenants must reoccupy the unit within 45 <br />days of notifying the landlord. <br />Background <br />Attachment E9.A. - Page 63 of 84 <br />168