Proposed changes to San José’s Ellis Act Ordinance would perpetuate residential segregation and disproportionately deny housing to Hispanic and Latinx residents, single-parent households, and non-citizens in violation of state and federal fair housing and civil rights laws. Attorneys from the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, the Western Center on Law and Poverty, and the Public Interest Law Project demand that San José City Council refrain from rolling back this important tool for preserving rent-stabilized buildings in San José.