City Ordinance for Rent Control and Just Cause Eviction:
Sacramento County needs 62,072 more affordable rental homes to meet the needs of its lowest-income renters (California Housing Partnership Research). Median rent in Sacramento County increased 18% since 2000 while median renter household income decreased 11%, when adjusted for inflation. Renters need to earn 2.5 times the state minimum wage to afford the median asking rent of $1,350, for a 2 bedroom apartment in Sacramento County. Escalating housing costs drive renters into poverty: when housing costs are considered, Sacramento County's poverty rate rises from 17.9% to 18.5%. The City of Sacramento needs an Ordinance for Rent Control and Just Cause Eviction. Sacramento families are being displaced right now due to skyrocketing rent increases. They deserve the security in their homes that only rent control can give them. The City of Sacramento must act quickly to protect them and protect the diversity and health of our city.
8.132.030 Cultivation of medical marijuana. Specifically A.1. that bans outdoor cultivation. Council members and police advisers made there decision to outlaw cultivation of cannabis outdoors based on old laws in place. Previously only medical cannabis patients were allowed to cultivate cannabis. This still leaves many people without a doctors recommendation, who want to use cannabis, the inability to grow cannabis themselves legally and makes it more inciting to steal from medical growers. Now that the state law has changed the law to allow all adults over 21 to use or cultivate cannabis, make for a very different situation than previous. All people wishing to cultivate cannabis will have to do so indoors increasing their electricity usage by having to use high wattage lights and high powered environmental controls. Did the council do an analysis on the future green houses gases that will be created and whether or not that is in compliance with CA Air Resources Board regulations
City Ordinance for Rent Control and Just Cause Eviction:
Sacramento County needs 62,072 more affordable rental homes to meet the needs of its lowest-income renters (California Housing Partnership Research). Median rent in Sacramento County increased 18% since 2000 while median renter household income decreased 11%, when adjusted for inflation. Renters need to earn 2.5 times the state minimum wage to afford the median asking rent of $1,350, for a 2 bedroom apartment in Sacramento County. Escalating housing costs drive renters into poverty: when housing costs are considered, Sacramento County's poverty rate rises from 17.9% to 18.5%. The City of Sacramento needs an Ordinance for Rent Control and Just Cause Eviction. Sacramento families are being displaced right now due to skyrocketing rent increases. They deserve the security in their homes that only rent control can give them. The City of Sacramento must act quickly to protect them and protect the diversity and health of our city.
8.132.030 Cultivation of medical marijuana. Specifically A.1. that bans outdoor cultivation. Council members and police advisers made there decision to outlaw cultivation of cannabis outdoors based on old laws in place. Previously only medical cannabis patients were allowed to cultivate cannabis. This still leaves many people without a doctors recommendation, who want to use cannabis, the inability to grow cannabis themselves legally and makes it more inciting to steal from medical growers. Now that the state law has changed the law to allow all adults over 21 to use or cultivate cannabis, make for a very different situation than previous. All people wishing to cultivate cannabis will have to do so indoors increasing their electricity usage by having to use high wattage lights and high powered environmental controls. Did the council do an analysis on the future green houses gases that will be created and whether or not that is in compliance with CA Air Resources Board regulations