Keeping Illegal Activity  off Rental Property

The City of Pomona has implemented the Crime Free Multi-Housing program designed to help tenants, owners, and managers of rental properties keep drugs and other illegal activity's off their property. The program is called Crime Free Multi-Housing (CFMH) and it's a proven crime prevention program specifically designed for rental properties to reduce crime.

Why Crime Free?
When Criminals and destructive tenants operate out of rental property, neighborhoods suffer and landlords face serious consequences, including:

• Loss of valued Tenants
• Property values decline
• Property damage from abuse, retaliation or neglect
• Civil Penalties including forfeiture or temporary closure of the property
• Fear and frustration when dealing with dangerous and threatening tenants
• Resentment & anger between neighbors, tenants, and property managers

Crime Free Multi-Housing is successful because it approaches crime on many fronts. The police cannot solve crime problems alone and neither can the management or residents of rental properties. When we work together the end result is the most successful approach to crimes in rental communities. To participate, rental properties must attend a free, 3-Phase process that includes: 1) An eight hour property management seminar. 2) A security assessment of the property. 3) A tenant safety social wherein the property receives full certification.

Pomona's CFMH Goals

• Create safer rental properties and neighborhoods
• Enhance security and reduce the fear of crime for residents
• Facilitate a cooperative effort between rental property owners, managers, residents and police to minimize crime
• Promote effective property management through landlord training
• Reduce blight on rental properties
• Reduce police calls for service at rental properties
  
  

Let's make our community a safer place to live and enjoy for many years to come.

To view a listing of Certified CFMH properties in Pomona, Click here.

For information regarding the next CFMH Phase I training, Click here for registration form. Your questions and concerns are important. We encourage anyone who wants to learn more about this crime prevention effort to call Teri Baker-Crime Free Housing Coordinator.

Crime Free Housing Coordinator
Pomona Police Department
Crime Prevention Unit
909-620-2184 Office
909-865-4812 Fax
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*The Crime Free Multi-Housing program is an international program that began in Mesa,AZ in 1992. Currently the program is in 44 states, five Canadian provinces, Mexico, England, Finland, Japan, Russia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Afghanistan, and Puerto Rico. The Pomona Police Department awarded it’s first property certification in March of 2010.