Dear Menlo Park Council People,
We have a severe housing crisis. It's not just Palo Alto or Menlo Park. Cities in the Bay Area without rent control means that
tenants have no recourse if rents are raised. Please provide some relocation assistance protection for such tenants so that they
can have time to search for the small % of low income/affordable housing that exists. Longterm, we need caps on rents, and one
year lease requirements, and just-cause evictions. As a university professor of teachers, I know first hand that my beginning
teachers are not able to find adequate, low-cost housing, with no eviction protection, no relocation assistance, and thus are
doubling up,families even. This is shameful. Please provide fair tenant relocation assistance and just cause evictions.
Sincerely,
Professor Roberta Ahlquist, EmeritaSJSU
