Chair Sanchez details bill provisions: harassment definition, portfolio monitoring, exit incentives
Sanchez describes specific bill provisions: expanding the harassment definition to include ICE threats, monitoring problematic portfolios by reviewing buildings with the same owners as those with harassment findings, and creating stronger incentives to clear violations by requiring significant improvements before exiting the program.
Specifically, the bill will respond to rising reports of landlords threatening to call ICE on their tenants by expanding the definition of harassment.
The bill will monitor problematic portfolios by reviewing all buildings that have the same owner as those with findings of harassment.
And the bill will create stronger incentives to clear violations by allowing buildings to exit the program, only if those owners are significantly improving living conditions for their tenants.