The Palo Alto City Council passed an emergency ordinance on Monday night that requires landlords to provide relocation assistance to some tenants facing eviction, Palo Alto Online reported. The move comes as a direct response to pleas from residents of the downtown President Hotel Apartments, a historic apartment complex that sold this summer to a developer looking to turn it back into a hotel. Under the new city law, landlords of buildings with 50 or more units must provide financial assistance…
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Palo Alto enacts ’emergency’ law requiring landlords to provide financial assistance to some displaced renters