The Uniform Relocation Ordinance requires owners to provides tenants displaced by code compliance activities, owner or relative move-ins, Ellis Act, and condominium conversions with relocation payments. Except for temporary code compliance displacements, which requires the payment of actual temporary housing expenses, the payment amount depends on the size of the unit and adjusts for inflation annually on July 1st. The base payment amounts until June 30, 2024 are:
- $7,861.52 per studio/one bedroom unit
- $9,675.72 per two-bedroom unit
- $11,943.47 per three or more-bedroom unit
Tenant households in rental units that include lower income, elderly or disabled tenants, and/or minor children are entitled to a single additional relocation payment of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per unit from the owner.