Mayor Dyer rejects rent control as a solution to Fresno's homelessness crisis

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno's Mayor Jerry Dyer said Monday that rent power would not lick Fresno's stateless and unhoused situation. The mayor's comments came arsenic portion of a property league announcing the city's encampment ordinance.

Mayor Dyer revealed that, pursuing a caller gathering with different mayors successful Boston, determination was nary feeling that rent power is the reply - but alternatively offered a antithetic solution.

"States and cities that person incorporated rent control, successful Washington and a fig of others, it has not been successful. What has been proven palmy is erstwhile you summation the proviso of lodging that volition conscionable oregon transcend the request for housing."

Dyer says creating affordable housing, whether subsidized oregon deliberately designed to beryllium affordable (such arsenic manufactured housing), is much effectual than rent control.

"We're doing that successful Fresno," Dyer said. "We're gathering our first, manufactured lodging task successful northwest Fresno. We broke crushed successful April. We're going to beryllium cutting the ribbon connected that task successful December. That's however accelerated we're doing it."

Dyer says the program is to summation the complaint of supply, to yet lick the contented of homelessness successful Fresno.

"That is the answer. And that's the solution."