Licensing landlords

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  Norm Van Eeden Petersman

  • May 31, 2024 15:47
  • Official comment

  I appreciate you reaching out! I am sorry to say that we don't have any examples of places that have setup registries or licensing arrangements with landlords but I did a search and it looks like this article describes what it has been link in five communities. 
  https://www.policylink.org/resources-tools/tools/all-in-cities/housing-anti-displacement/rental-registries 
   
  More broadly, we do encourage communities to regulate nuisances instead of uses by using the powers they have for bylaw enforcement to uphold existing bylaws on excessive noise, disruption, and even things like the requirement to have a local property manager as it exists in your bylaws. We warn against the lingering unintended consequencs of regulations that prevent certain uses in neighbourhoods which can have lasting impacts on a place - for instance, the ban on rooming houses and renting out bedrooms in many places has contributed to a major housing need in many places.
   
  While not directly addressing your immediate question, I did want to share several articles that are related to what you're addressing in Carbondale: 

  • https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/10/30/landlords-are-the-localest-branch-of-local-government
  • https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/11/21/how-rent-control-hurts-tenants
  • https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/9/2/landlords-are-not-developers-and-vice-versa
  • https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/tag/landlords

   
  A small scale developer writing about her AirBnb
  https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/1/14/to-airbnb-or-not-to-airbnb
   
  https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/9/24/the-case-that-short-term-rentals-actually-make-our-neighborhoods-stronger
  https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/9/23/i-thought-airbnb-was-destroying-my-city-until-i-opened-one

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  Norm Van Eeden Petersman

  • June 17, 2024 15:10

  My colleague Edward Erfurt wrote,

  I developed and managed a rental Registration Program in Ranson. The city has modified the website and removed the instructions and purpose but not the forms: https://ransonwv.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Rental-Registration-Application.pdfThis is a common program in many communities. For Ranson, this program worked to improve the conditions of rental properties in the city (chase out the slum lords). It also made landlords understand that rental properties is a business and requires their attention.I have lots of stories that are both good and bad with these types of programs.

  And the City of Brainerd, MN has a program to look at too: https://www.ci.brainerd.mn.us/162/Rental-Housing 

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