The Santa Cruz City Council is scheduled to consider a consultant’s study of rent control issues at its Tuesday meeting. But this is not a report on controversial Measure M, which goes before voters in November.
The report, prepared by an outside law firm, looks at the creation of a rent control board as a city department, what such a department would do, how much it would cost, and how its actions would be enforced.
An estimated 5 to 6-thousand rental units in Santa Cruz would be covered by such a rent board, though there is no proposal on the table to create such a body. Measure M will be voted upon on November 6.
