If passed, it would’ve added reporting requirements related to rent and rental housing information, such as prices and square footage, to the existing Rental Registration Inspection Ordinance.
In a letter to Seattle city clerk Monica Martinez Simmons, Harrell says one of the problems with the legislation is that the accuracy of the data collected would be in question.
“A mandatory system compelling landlords to provide commercially sensitive business information about the size, characteristics, price and occupancy status of rental units is unlikely to yield reliable data,” Harrell said, citing information from James Young, Director of the University of Washington’s Washington Center for Real Estate Research.
In a letter to councilmembers a month earlier, Young said that the legislation as drafted “will not yield the level of quality of data the city requires” for two key reasons: the program needs to be voluntary, and that owners and landlords need to be able to trust the entity collecting the information.
Young says that in the past, the city relied on data from a company that had “widespread trust among the private rental housing community,” but since that company closed due to retirement, a viable replacement hasn’t been found. Harrell also said that financial costs associated with a mandatory reporting system would be too high.
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