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RE+ City Cohort Action Guide
Efficiency Standards for Rentals
Table of Contents
How to use this action guide
The goal of this action guide is to equip policymakers with the resources needed to understand, design, implement, and administer efficiency standards for residential rental properties in their jurisdiction. This policy can build upon rental licensing policies.
This action guide is broken into three phases for policymakers looking to Prepare, Implement, and Administer a policy for minimum efficiency standards for residential rental policies:
- Prepare: Create a policy blueprint: a living document to guide your policy development
- Create: Draft and pass the policy
- Administer: Consider ongoing compliance, administration, and evaluation
RMI Report – “Better Rentals, Better City”
This report summarizes what your city should consider when crafting an efficiency standards for rentals policy and provides best practices and case studies.
Please contact us at cities@rmi.org for updates on this policy or to be added to the Map of Cities that have implemented the policy.
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