San Jose cracking down on vanlords who rent recreational vehicles to homeless people

SAN JOSE HAS PROBLEMS with slumlords and now they have problems with vanlords.

City officials are targeting vanlords, individuals who they said prey on the homeless residents by renting them inoperable vehicles. Mayor Matt Mahan along with Councilmembers Bien Doan, Michael Mulcahy and David Cohen want to study ways to restrict renting RVs to homeless people. The Rules Committee recommended March 12 the city conduct an analysis of what it would take to enact a policy to prevent these rentals and to report back to the committee in two weeks. The final decision on curbing vanlords will be up to the City Council.