Rival Renters’ Rights Ordinance Advances, Setting Up City Council Showdown
The competing plans would expand tenant protections and enforcement, while one proposal would raise $22 million a year from new landlord fees, officials said.
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Aldermen opposed to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s renters’ rights plan advance their own version – Chicago Tribune/Yahoo
"The outcome sets up a peculiar situation in a deeply split council with thin vote margins: two ambitious pieces of conflicting legislation seeking to address overwhelmingly important and complicated housing rules, teed up simultaneously after months of scrutiny."
Zoning Committee approves renter protections proposed by Mayor Johnson's Council opponents
<p>Mayor Brandon Johnson’s City Council opposition on Thursday strengthened its hand in the battle to determine how much protection Chicago will give to more than 600,000 renters.</p><p>One day after the Council's Housing Committee narrowly approved Johnson’s watered-down ordinance — minus a “just cause” provision that would have required landlords to make relocation payments to evicted tenants — the Zoning Committee approved a rival version fav…
Rival Renters’ Rights Ordinance Advances, Setting Up City Council Showdown
The Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards voted 12-6 Thursday to advance a revised measure that was crafted by critics of Mayor Brandon Johnson on the City Council and is supported by landlord groups and the city’s business community.
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