| Dear NBOA Friends and Colleagues: |
| Urgent! Help Us Oppose PRO By
Joining Our Phone Campaign |
| The Committee on Housing and Real Estate will likely vote on Mayor Johnson’s Protecting Renters Ordinance Wednesday, September 16 at noon. This one is close enough that it could go either way.
Help us oppose the PRO Ordinance by calling your Alderperson as soon as possible. |
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Click below to call City Council: enter your phone number and the address of your Chicago building, and our tool will show you talking points and full instructions. Our advocacy tool will call you, you’ll hear a brief greeting, and then be connected to the alderperson for that property. Give them your name, the address, and tell them you are opposed to PRO. Tell them (briefly) why. You’ll be talking to a staffer, but it’s VITAL that you call today or tomorrow. It won’t take more than 3 or 4 minutes, and every call is important.
Our bottom line: be sure your alderperson knows you are strongly opposed to PRO — a phone call is far more impactful than a written email, though we urge you to do that as well.
Equally important: urge your like-minded colleagues, friends, family and neighbors to do the same. |
| The Mayor’s ordinance adds new registry fees on apartments, along with a new Bureau of Rental Housing Services with enforcement authority. It layers on more than 100 complicated new rules and regulations, with steep new fines for paperwork mistakes or noncompliance. Its Just Cause provision requires housing providers to renew the leases of tenants who disturb, harass, or engage in criminal activity towards neighbors — the only way out is winning an eviction in court, which almost never succeeds on these grounds, or paying up to $7500 in relocation costs.
This ordinance makes it more expensive to provide housing at every turn higher fees, more paperwork, less control over who stays in your building — and those costs land on the residents who depend on you.
You can’t make housing more affordable by making it more expensive to provide housing. |
| With your help, we will defeat this politically motivated anti-housing ordinance.
Sincerely,
Michael Glasser
President
Neighborhood Building Owners Alliance |
| NBOA Urges Neighborhood Multifamily
to Attend City Council Housing Committee Meeting, Wednesday at Noon
This coming Wednesday at noon, the City Council Committee on Housing & Real Estate, chaired by Alderman Byron Sigcho Lopez, will consider the PRO Ordinance.
City Council Committee on Housing & Real Estate
Noon, Wednesday, Sept. 16
City Council Chambers
121 N. LaSalle
We urge those who oppose the ordinance to attend this important meeting as the alderpersons on the committee must see our industry’s strong opposition to this terrible ordinance. |
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