5 Newell Court | East Palo Alto, California 94303
www.nodisplacement.com
Kelly Beggs
Contract Principal Planner
City of East Palo Alto
1960 Tate St.
East Palo Alto, CA 94303
[email protected]
February 3, 2022
RE: Euclid Improvements
Aggregated Tenant Move Information
Dear Kelly,
As requested, below is the aggregated information about the status of the Euclid Improvement Area households and why those who moved said they left the property.
Out of the 161 units in the Euclid Improvement Area, as of 1/1/2022 the status of each unit is as follows:
• 61 households have not moved out of the Euclid Improvement Area • 29 households participated in an Optional Tenant-Requested Move (OTRM) to another Woodland Park unit
• 69 households moved out of the Euclid Improvement Area • 2 were never occupied by tenants since we purchased the property (including the management office)
Of the 69 households that moved out of the Euclid Improvement Area but didn’t participate in OTRM, the most common reasons for leaving were:
• Relocate City / State (12%)
• Moved to Another Community (12%)
• Job Transfer or Job Loss (12%)
• Bought or rented home/condo (7%)
• Closer to work/school (7%)
The information for all units is included in Appendix A. 2 Tenants were not pressured to leave, and on average improvement area tenants left at a much lesser rate than other tenants at Woodland Park. After announcing the Euclid Improvements (December 2018), the average annual attrition rate in the Euclid Improvement Area was 5%, much lower than it was in the rest of Woodland Park, which was 15% excluding the Euclid Improvement Area.
Please let us know if you have any questions or would like to discuss further. We look forward to sharing this information with the City Council at an upcoming meeting.
Regards,
Mike Kramer
3 Appendix A
Primary reason given for departure for the households that moved out of the Euclid Improvement Area but didn’t participate in OTRM:
8 – Relocate City/State
8 – Another Community
8 – Job Transfer or Job Loss
5 – Bought or Rent Home/Condo
5 – Closer to Work/School
6 – None Provided
4 – Family Changes and/or Financial Changes
4 – Tenant Preferred other Woodland Park Unit
4 – Other (not specified)
4 – Non-payment of rent
3 – Larger Unit
2 – Personal
2 – Abandoned Unit
2 – Unsatisfactory maintenance
1 – Reasonable accommodation
1 – Renewal rent increase (note: increase was certified by Rent Stabilization staff as within the allowable limit)
1 – Roommate Change
1 – Noise
69 – Total