Sweet Home city councilors want to crack down on substandard housing and slumlords.
The council is considering ideas with the goal of ensuring that tenants have quality housing. They have in front of them an example from Salem and Keizer, which annually inspect and license multi-family rental housing.
Inspection fees pay for the program. Naturally, those costs are passed on to the renter.
Councilor Jeff Goodwin has suggested that renters would be happy to pay…