I've been a landlord within a registration jurisdiction. Overall: 95% of tenants end up paying more for less, the other 5% will continue to rent into predatory housing. Predatory rental housing -- backyard RVs or single family houses chopped up into units without utility upgrades -- seems a growing problem. Landlords are running a business. They should be held accountable as registered businesses. Their product should be registered. But periodic inspections are a constitutional violation of tenant privacy and a practical impediment to improving the rental housing stock. If government inspectors are coming by looking to justify their program by calling out windows too close to door knobs, or doors that don't have automatic closers (I've been cited for both), voluntary investment into periodic upgrades isn't prudent business. Periodic inspections means spending the improvements budget on what supposed "safety" flaws some visiting bureaucrat writes up. Code enforcement upon complaint exists now and works now. That other 5%? Almost all will continue to find slumlords and illegal rent substandard housing the registration and inspection program pretends it can eliminate.
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