Cedar Rapids advocates urge permanent rental ban on landlord of nuisance properties

CEDAR RAPIDS — Community advocates are publicly calling on the city to permanently revoke Charles A. Davisson’s permit to lease property in Cedar Rapids, saying he is “not fit to be a landlord” given housing code violations, police calls, shootings and other issues surrounding a Bever Avenue SE property.

Residents are circulating a petition they hope will prompt Cedar Rapids officials to “revoke his landlord license permanently” following a report this month in The Gazette that the city Housing Board of Appeals had taken the unusual step of suspending for six months Davisson’s permission to rent out 2307 Bever Ave. SE and three other properties listed under Property Holders LTD.

Advocates are urging Cedar Rapids officials to bar Davisson, 58, from leasing his properties again once the suspension ends in April. Davisson is appealing in court the board’s decision.

“He has had enough chances to do the right thing,” reads the petition, which is circulating on change.org. “Enough is enough.”

Read more: https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/government/cedar-rapids-advocates-urge-permanent-rental-ban-on-landlord-of-nuisance-properties-20210330
(Cedar Rapids Gazette)