REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
April 5, 2018
FROM: WILMA QUAN-SCHECTER, City Manager
Office of the City Manager
DOUGLAS T. SLOAN, City Attorney
City Attorney's Office
SUBJECT
Title
Provide Anti-Slum Enforcement Team (ASET) Quarterly Report
Body
RECOMMENDATION
City Manager's Office and City Attorney's Office to provide an ASET quarterly status report.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Administration, City Attorney's Office (CAO), and the Development and Resource Management's (DARM) Rental Housing Division staff are working in a coordinated effort to aggressively pursue compliance from landlords who are failing to maintain rental properties. The City does not have resources to address and remedy all code violations, but through ASET is pursuing egregious violators with maximum fines, reimbursements, attorney fees, and other remedies such as receiverships. The mission of ASET is to increase the stock of habitable rental housing by pursuing violators to obtain code compliance. Quarterly reports are provided to the City Council concerning the status of ASET, results obtained, and any additional resources necessary to accomplish ASET's mission. The ASET Weekly Status Report is also posted to the City's website. ASET has successfully pursued compliance of approximately 4,750 violations in over 480 units. Currently, approximately 4,000 additional violations are being pursued in 340 units as part of active ASET cases.
BACKGROUND
ASET is dedicated to increasing the stock of affordable and habitable rental housing by pursuing and improving slum properties with substantial health and safety violations through enforcement, education, fines, receiverships, and more.
The CAO has two lawyers (and one position vacant), a paralegal, a legal secretary assigned to ASET, and two legal investigators whose focus is ASET. Additionally, the CAO's four law clerks assist with related Code Enforcement Division matters. DARM has a Rental Housing Division manager,...
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