Housing Preservation & Protection

Preserving and protecting our community's existing housing supply is crucial to maintaining affordability and preventing homelessness. By safeguarding affordable housing options and implementing protections like rent stabilization and tenant support programs, we can help ensure that residents are not displaced.
Park Orchard Apartments

These efforts strengthen community stability, reduce the risk of homelessness, and promote equity by providing long-term housing solutions for individuals and families across income levels, making our community more inclusive and resilient.

A person in a workm vest with a clipboard and pen inspecting a rental housing untiRental Inspection Program:

We preserve housing in older apartment buildings by encouraging landlords to maintain their properties and by monitoring compliance with housing-quality standards through Hayward’s Rental Housing Inspection Program.

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A notice of rent increaseRent Stabilization:

We protect community member housing by controlling the rate of annual rent increases and requiring just cause for eviction of tenants through our Residential Rent Stabilization and Tenant Protection and Mobile Home Space Stabilization ordinances.

More about Residential Rent Stabilization →

 

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Homelessness Prevention:

Through a new Shallow Subsidy Program, Hayward is working to keep people in their homes and head off homelessness by providing small, or shallow, rent subsidy payments to some of the City’s most economically vulnerable households. 

More about homelessness prevention →