Safe Healthy Homes Bills Explained – How You Can Testify on Feb. 10!

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.

The main issues with Bill Nos. 250329 and 250330 are as follows:

Additionally, it is important for landlords to make their voices heard. Tenants are constantly reporting the problems they face, but lawmakers also need to hear directly from individual landlords about the challenges they experience as rental property owners. Take a few minutes to document the issues you encounter and send them directly to Cade.Underwood@phila.gov, Director of Legislation and Policy in the Office of Nicolas O’Rourke, and cc hapcooffice@hapcophiladelphia.com on your email.

The more individual examples lawmakers receive from landlords, the better they can understand the real impact on rental property owners. Your input matters and can influence change.