From:
To: City Council
Subject: Agenda item #8
Date: Monday, November 3, 2025 6:51:31 PM
Mayor, Vice Mayor and City Council members,
My name is Judy Junghans. I am speaking out as a concerned citizen and friend of a tenant at Woodmark Apartments and a supporter of all the tenants at Woodmark Apartments.
I am asking you to approve an Urgency Just Cause Eviction Ordinance that takes effect on the first day of tenancy for current and future tenants, accompanied by three months of market-rate relocation assistance that doesn't require signing away of legal rights. An Urgency Ordinance is the only protection that would ensure that all the remaining families at Woodmark are covered by the 14th of December, as well as tenants in other deed-restricted housing.
As a retired person on a fixed income, unstable housing and increasing costs weigh heavily on us. I am writing on behalf of Melissa Page and her son, Tucker, and all the Woodmark tenants. The additional stress of losing your home along with our country's political instability is too much to bear.
Without protections in place for vulnerable populations and affordable housing for all, we will create more poverty and homelessness.
I am standing with others to ask that Sebastopol take immediate action to support an Urgency Just Cause Ordinance to cover deed-restricted housing like Woodmark . These protections are just one step. You have the power and opportunity to protect your constituents. Thank you for hearing us.
Sincerely,
Judy Junghan
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato –