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From:Kate Comfort To:GRP-City Council Subject:[CAUTION: SUSPECT SENDER] HIP Housing | Agenda Item 9.B for 7/27/26 Date:Monday, July 27, 2026 1:09:01 PM Dear Mayor Martinez Saballos, I was hoping to attend the Council meeting this Monday, 7/27/26, but I send my apologies that I will sadly not be able to join you. However, on behalf of HIP Housing, a long-time local affordable housing advocate, I would like to weigh in again on the Redwood City rent-control ballot measure proposed for November, which appears as Item 9.B. on this evening's agenda. With extremely restricted developable land throughout San Mateo County and no market forces for affordable housing, it is essential that each local municipality use every tool in its toolkit to create a healthy environment for affordable housing development and management. The poorly crafted measure being proposed for November not only disincentivizes preservation housing but will also prevent any person or organization from ever doing preservation work in the City now and in the future. It also creates a hostile environment for all rental housing by creating onerous and likely unenforceable requirements on good landlords while exempting many bad ones Please help to send this measure back to the drawing board to be better researched by voting not to endorse it. It is critical that the Council takes action to protect the positive housing environment and momentum it has worked so hard to create. We desperately need more affordable housing in Redwood City and throughout the County. To achieve this, we need more inventory, not a poorly written rent control measure with a myriad of unintended consequences that will result in extremely negative short and long-term consequences on our local rental market. Please vote not to endorse this measure. With Deep Sincerity, Kate www.hiphousing.org Kate Comfort Harr | she/her Executive Director (650) 348-6660 ext. 307 111 E. 5th Avenue, San Mateo, CA 94401 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE and DISCLAIMER: This email message is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. If you are the intended recipient, but do not wish to receive communications through this medium, please so advise the sender immediately. Nothing in this communication should be interpreted as a digital or electronic signature that can be used to authenticate a contract or other legal document. The recipients are advised that the sender and HIP HOUSING or its subsidiaries and affiliates are not qualified to provide, and have not been contracted to provide, legal, financial, or tax advice, and that any such advice must be obtained from the recipients’ attorney, accountant, or tax professional.