Safe Healthy Homes Bills Explained – How You Can Testify on Feb. 10!
Safe Healthy Homes Bills Hearing – February 10 at City Hall
The Safe Healthy Homes bills, presented by Nicolas O’Rourke, will be shared at a hearing on February 10 at 10:00 AM at City Hall, room 400. These are the amended bills they hope to pass, and they could have a significant impact on your business as a housing provider.
We encourage you to testify in person and share your voice with the city. City Council is limiting the hearing to two and a half hours, and each person who testifies will have two to three minutes to speak. Please reach out to hapcooffice@hacophiladelphia with your name, email address and phone number if you are willing to testify. You do not have to be a Hapco member in order to participate.
We recommend everyone to watch this video where Paul Cohen, Esq., explains the bills and what each provision could mean to rental property owners and our community.
- Making good-cause eviction for all tenancies, not just for tenancies under one year
- Providing for an abatement of rent if the rental property owner has not provided the tenant with a rental license or certificate of suitability
- Requiring the landlord to provide notice to the tenant of any L&I violation or failure to obtain a license
- Having a proactive inspection program; and
- Placing the burden of proof on the rental property owner
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Exclusive Sherwin-Williams Savings for Hapco Members
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Missed the PGW Webinar? View the Slides Here!
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the webinar with Philadelphia Gas Works. If you couldn’t attend, PGW has shared their presentation slides so you can review the information on your own time.