The First Appellate District vacated a superior court order and remanded. The court held that the City of Hayward’s amended rental housing inspection ordinance did not conflict with state agency or residential housing law or violate principles of substantive due process.
The City of Hayward initiated a comprehensive rental housing inspection program in 1982. Its Mandatory Residential Inspection Ordinance, implemented in 1989, incorporated a mandatory inspection program (MIP) and authorized two types of inspections of rental housing units by city officials: the MIP inspection targeting all units in specified areas, and a “for cause” inspection of a particular rental unit at the request of a tenant who reported a housing code violation.
