Speaker 1: Moved in second and any other comments those in favor of adopting the resolution 31910. Please vote i i those oppose vote no. The motion carries the resolution is adopted chair will sign it. You're right. Please read the next agenda item into the record.
Speaker 4: Every point of the Civil Rights, Utilities, Economic Development and Arts Committee and item two Constable 119606 relating to rental properties restricting lennar's ability ability to limit the number of persons residing in a rental unit. Prohibiting the use of conditions that are applied to persons residing in a rental unit who are not tenants in many. Section 7.20 4.0, 29.0 30 of and adding new sections 7.20 4.0 31 and point zero 32 to the Senate. The Super Committee recommends the bill passes amended because remember.
Speaker 3: HERBOLD Thank you. I'd still like to.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry I'm.
Speaker 3: Struggling here through this head. GOLD I'd like to first start off with a little bit of context. These first three bills in particular have been the product of working to realize the recommendations from the Losing Home report published by the Seattle Women's Commission and the Housing Justice Project. This bill before us now prohibits a landlord from limiting the number of people residing in a rental unit to fewer than the legal occupancy limit established by local, state or federal law. Additional roommates and family members are required to be named in the lease.
Speaker 4: And can.
Speaker 3: Be subject to screening requirements no stricter than those of the primary tenant. Roommates and family members of roommates can be denied based on those screening requirements. This legislation was intended to help people share the cost of rent and enjoy the other benefits of living with family or roommates in the high rent environment here in Seattle. The 2019 National Low Income Housing Coalition report shows that the average housing wage in other words, what a tenant needs to make in order to afford a two bedroom apartment at fair market rate is 3652 or a salary of nearly $76,000 a year for the Seattle Bellevue area. This is more than twice the minimum wage. The bill also opens up greater cultural inclusivity in our housing market. In discussing this bill, we heard from several people testifying that the ability of having a roommate not was only about affordability, but also enabled nontraditional household situations such as households with caretakers of adult children or siblings with disabilities . Cultures where multigenerational living situations are more common. This bill uses current city, local and state occupancy standards. Landlords price the rental units according to the market demand. This is a standard business practice. Enabling roommates to continue to combine resources to make rent and afford other necessities is an important goal to create housing stability for all people. Like a similar law in New York State, in New York City, all occupants in the household will be required to be identified on the lease, and landlords are not restricted from running screening requirements on roommates that are not immediate family like a sublease relationship. The bill also establishes succession rights in cases when the tenant vacates or abandons a rental unit before the end of the lease term. Current law permits a landlord to evict or eject remaining people in these situations, but this bill instead would permit occupants of a rental unit to stay. Upon being coming, upon becoming a party to the lease agreement. So in other words, they would have to become. They would have to be. They'd have to become a party to the to the lease agreement in a formal way. A couple other things just want to mention. SDI recognized that there is need for significant tenant and landlord engagement around this bill before it goes into effect. So we have a delayed implementation date and if there are no questions, I'd like to move passage of Council Bill 11 9606.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Because for her, any comments or questions on this bill, by the way, it doesn't actually need to be moved as it so we're okay. Okay. Because it came out of committee so that no questions or comments or you finish your comments. Catherine Honorable okay. Please call the roll on the passage of the bill.
Speaker 2: Macheda. O'BRIEN All right. Pacheco I so want I make sure I. Herbold, I. Whereas President Harrell I aide in favor and unopposed bill passed.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I will sign it. Please read the next agenda item. You can read a shorter title if you like.
AN ORDINANCE relating to rental properties; restricting a landlord’s ability to limit the number of persons residing in a rental unit; prohibiting the use of conditions that are applied to persons residing in a rental unit who are not tenants; and amending Sections 7.24.020 and 7.24.030 of, and adding new Sections 7.24.031 and 7.24.032 to, the Seattle Municipal Code.