Help! Preserve Rental Housing in Our Burbank Community
Tell the Burbank City Council NO to price controls and housing restrictions.
We Rejected Their Failed Price Controls and Housing Policies in 2020
SAY NO TO THESE BAD HOUSING POLICIES AGAIN IN 2024
The Burbank City Council again wants to push their extremist agenda and ordinances that jeopardize the supply and quality of rental housing in our city. These policies not only threaten the livelihoods of small, independent and affordable rental housing providers but also will place politicians in the rental housing business, imposing price controls and significant financial burdens on the city’s rental housing providers. If these proposed policies and regulations are enacted, they will have devastating effects on housing supply and quality, and public safety throughout Burbank. These proposed regulations will create a bureaucracy that costs city taxpayers almost $5 million.
A Threat to Mom-and-Pop Housing Providers
Our community relies on small, independent “mom-and-pop” rental property owners to provide the majority of rental housing in our community. But the City Council’s proposed ordinances will:
- Drive many of these smaller housing providers out of business, especially following the financial strain of statewide COVID-19-era regulations that included moratoriums on evictions and rent increases, leaving many owners stuck with unpaid back rent and are still recovering their these loses. So many of these small, independent owners are retirees and depend on their rental income to supplement Social Security or teachers’ pensions.
- Strain the budgets of housing providers already at the breaking point, due to increasing property maintenance costs fueled by inflation, insurance costs driven by carriers leaving the market, and increasing regulatory risks.
Don’t let the Burbank City Council ignore our voices and the preservation of our community by pushing extremist policies that:
- Impose more restrictive price controls and rent stabilization measures that hurt small, independent housing providers who are the majority of housing providers in our Burbank community.
- Increase relocation fees for “No-Fault” evictions, surpassing the requirements of state law and creating undue financial burdens that ultimately drive-up the cost of housing for renters.
- Implement anti-tenant harassment and anti-tenant retaliation ordinances, without hard proof of harassment or retaliation claims that force housing providers to incur unnecessary legal costs that drive up the cost of rental housing.
A Negative Impact on Housing Providers and Renters
These unfair policies threaten to:
- Take away our private property rights.
- Increase the financial burden on small housing providers.
- Reduce rental housing availability as more owners are driven out of the market, which will drive up rents for tenants who cannot afford dramatic increases.
- Set dangerous precedents that would spill over into other communities and other types of housing, including condominiums and single family homes available for rent.
- This program could cost almost $5 million. The City Council needs to conduct a thorough economic cost study to understand the full impact on taxpayers who will foot the bill.
Your Voice Matters:
Reject Harmful Housing Policies
We need your help to say NO to these extremist ordinances. The Burbank City Council needs to hear from you. Make a difference today — stand up for property rights and tell the Burbank City Council to reject these unfair ordinances!