Burlington Tenant Union’s Short-Term Demands to City Council
Recently the Community Development and Revitalization Committee was tasked with bringing ‘tenant protections’ to the city council. So members of the BTU got together and wrote some attainable, shorter-term demands. Please click the link below.
Our 5 larger demands:
- Increasing the Power and Scope of the Housing Board of Review
- A Code Enforcement Department That Works for Tenants
- Enacting Rent Control
- Enacting Just Cause Evictions
- Safe Parking, Safe Camping
Our 4 smaller demands:
- Ban the Box
- Increase the penalty on all improperly withheld security deposits
- Expand the retaliatory eviction ‘clock’
- Publicize the database of landlords, Certificate of Compliance, rental registration, and code violations
