DON'T GIVE UP on Eviction control . . . Planning March 13 . . . Landlords welcome .
Meet with your neighbors to plan for Fair Evictions and Rents controls, which we promoted as an emergency act of the selectboard in late 2020. We decided to proceed with an amendment, because of selectboard resistance. (Ask to see the interesting legal correspondence.) An amendment can be proposed with equal weight at Representative Town Meeting (BCS), or by petition. This is not a town resolution under Article III and can be done any time of year.
The BCS draft had limits on rent increases to inhibit predatory evictions; it had reparations; it had verification of exceptions. It is also enforceable upon state approval, unlike the other amendments in Vermont, which only authorize the town or city to write a law. Without the endless lease and with people already warmed up to the issue a campaign might be easy.
The proposal can be advanced three ways.
1. by a vote at Representative Town Meeting March 25
2. by a vote after new ballot petition
3. by a temporary ordinance of the selectboard (to enact while the matter is pending in the state legislature)
Zoom meeting with your neighbors noon till 1PM Monday 3/13 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89714925598
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