The City’s housing element recognizes the importance of maintaining the existing housing stock, especially rental housing, through a variety of programs and policies, including a condominium conversion ordinance to avoid adverse impacts to the rental stock and tenants. Yet this proposed ordinance regarding converting multifamily housing to hotels, does not reference in any way the importance of maintaining the City’s precious rental housing stock and focuses on ensuring a “smooth hotel operation.” The City has an affordable housing crisis, not a hotel crisis! Rather than making a modest change to the process, we recommend the City adopt a moratorium prohibiting conversions of any housing to nonresidential uses during this crisis. At a minimum a moratorium could be linked to the timing of the City’s Tenant Protection Ordinance
Converting existing housing to non-residential housing at this time is short sighted. This area needs more study and more input from the community, especially during a time when when public meetings are conducted virtually.
As President of the Environmental Council of Sacramento, I wish to express support for the comments on this agenda item (and No, 7) conveyed by our member organization, the Sacramento Housing Alliance. During this pandemic, hotel vacancies are at an old-time low. Therefore, we request delaying further consideration of this item until the pandemic has receded to an extent that normal hotel occupancies are achieved. /s/ Ralph Propper
Victor Kosko, Homeless Wise Minister from DEITY
over 4 years ago
If you instead convert to homeless hotels rather than bed and breakfast things need to be different, smaller more efficient rooms, not windows, lower ceiling height if possible, Tennant's work for facility, tenancy government or private service to maintain near full residency, different security (homeless believe in violence, can start fires), super healthy food provided etc.
We do need our own hotels.
The City’s housing element recognizes the importance of maintaining the existing housing stock, especially rental housing, through a variety of programs and policies, including a condominium conversion ordinance to avoid adverse impacts to the rental stock and tenants. Yet this proposed ordinance regarding converting multifamily housing to hotels, does not reference in any way the importance of maintaining the City’s precious rental housing stock and focuses on ensuring a “smooth hotel operation.” The City has an affordable housing crisis, not a hotel crisis! Rather than making a modest change to the process, we recommend the City adopt a moratorium prohibiting conversions of any housing to nonresidential uses during this crisis. At a minimum a moratorium could be linked to the timing of the City’s Tenant Protection Ordinance
Converting existing housing to non-residential housing at this time is short sighted. This area needs more study and more input from the community, especially during a time when when public meetings are conducted virtually.
As President of the Environmental Council of Sacramento, I wish to express support for the comments on this agenda item (and No, 7) conveyed by our member organization, the Sacramento Housing Alliance. During this pandemic, hotel vacancies are at an old-time low. Therefore, we request delaying further consideration of this item until the pandemic has receded to an extent that normal hotel occupancies are achieved. /s/ Ralph Propper
If you instead convert to homeless hotels rather than bed and breakfast things need to be different, smaller more efficient rooms, not windows, lower ceiling height if possible, Tennant's work for facility, tenancy government or private service to maintain near full residency, different security (homeless believe in violence, can start fires), super healthy food provided etc.
We do need our own hotels.