Neighborhood Services &
Education Committee
June 9, 2022
Citywide Residential AntiDisplacement Strategy
Quarterly Status Report
Jacky Morales-Ferrand
Director
Ragan Henninger
Deputy Director
Emily Hislop
Division Manager
2 Top 4 Recommendations:
1. Equitable COVID-19 Response and Recovery
2. Anti-Displacement and Neighborhood Tenant
Preferences
3. Community Opportunity to Purchase Program (COPA)
4. Underrepresented Communities on Commissions,
including Lived Experience with Homelessness seat on
Housing & Community Development Commission
(Commission)
Citywide Residential Anti-Displacement Strategy
3 For San José, as of May 29, 2022:
• 12,492 completed applications
• $187.3M rent requested
• $107.7M paid to 9,394 households so far
$89M (83%) to Very and Extremely Low-Income households • ∼50% of applicants are Latino/a/x-headed households
• ∼64% are Extremely Low-Income households (income
<=30% AMI)
COVID-19 Response: State Emergency Rental
Assistance
4 AB 2179 extended through June 30, 2022 legal protections against eviction based on nonpayment of rent accumulated between March 1, 2020 – March 31, 2022 where there is
State COVID-19 Rent Relief application pending
Extended through June 30, 2022 a statewide preemption of local laws concerning COVID-19 rental debt
• Local jurisdictions are preempted from applying new or additional local protections against eviction for nonpayment of rent, if the rent accrued between March 1, 2022 - June 30, 2022.
Eviction Protections Under AB 2179
5 Temporary, targeted program to intervene in evictions of tenants with pending State COVID-19 Rent Relief
applications
Jointly administered by City and County
Other partners are Sacred Heart Community Services,
Destination: Home, and Project Sentinel Court Mediation Program
ONLY for tenants with pending eviction (unlawful
detainer) court cases who submitted a State application before April 1, 2022
Eviction Diversion and Settlement Program
6 Established weekly unlawful detainer clinic at the Superior Court Courthouse, which soft-launched June 1st
Partnered with Court, County, Self-Help Center, Sacred Heart, Destination: Home and the Project Sentinel Court Mediation Program Open to tenants and landlords involved in unlawful detainer (eviction) court actions
Assistance with court filings or legal referrals and access to mediation services and other resources to help resolve the court action, avoid judgment and work towards stable housing
Goal is for the clinic to become a permanent part of the UD process Unlawful Detainer Clinic
7 SB 649 (Cortese)
• Met with HCD and Department of Fair Housing &
Employment
• Answering staff questions, meeting with stakeholders
• Bill to be heard in June in Assembly Housing committee Department of Housing & Community Development
• Tenant Preference guidance memo not yet issued
Staffing
• Applying for FUSE Fellow
Tenant Preferences to Help Mitigate Displacement
8 Official hearings deferred due to staff capacity
required for new Housing Element
• Revised timeline – resume in early fall 2022
Regular meetings with community partner, SOMOS Mayfair
New two-year Breakthrough Grant Fellow starting in June • Focus: COPA, community land trusts support,
Preservation work, potentially tenant preferences
• Onboarding her with SOMOS Mayfair
Community Opportunity to Purchase (COPA)
9 Lived Experience seat with homelessness, and stipend
for that Commissioner and alternate seat approved
Next steps
• Staff working with Clerk to amend commission
application
• Outreach for recruitment
• Mayor will appoint new commissioner and alternate
• Program supports put in place – staff hiring necessary Increasing Equitable Representation on Commission
Next Three Months
10 Topic Activities
Equitable COVID-19
Response & Recovery
• Implement unlawful detainer clinic
• Operate Eviction Help Centers
• Implement eviction diversion and settlement
program
Tenant Preferences
• SB 649 support
• Seek FUSE Fellow to increase staff capacity
• Reassess workplan & HCD support timing in fall
Community Opportunity
to Purchase Program
(COPA)
• Defer finalizing program recommendations and
official hearings until after Housing Element draft is
submitted
Live Experience
Commissioner + Stipends
• Edit commission application with Clerk’s Office
• Conduct outreach on opportunity, begin recruitment
• Replace City staffer & implement program supports
Neighborhood Services &
Education Committee
June 9, 2022
Citywide Residential AntiDisplacement Strategy
Quarterly Status Report
Jacky Morales-Ferrand
Director
Ragan Henninger
Deputy Director
Emily Hislop
Division Manager