The city has proposed two options for spreading tenant rent increases over the course of several years to pay for the work. The first would allow owners to increase rent by a certain percentage following a retrofit if operating income fell below that of a particular year to be determined by the city. That rent increase would be permanent.

Another option would allow an owner to pass along a certain percentage of the retrofit costs onto tenants over a certain period.

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