The Lower Ward hall now accepts a sleeping-room address or gate lodging slip when a resident asks to be placed on the comment roll. The pilot began after the clerk compared the separate lodger list with the household register and found people waiting for sponsorship who had already been living and working in the ward.
The change is limited. A temporary address can bring a meeting notice and a place in the speaking queue; it does not count as a permanent household for room allocation, and it does not add a vote to the ward table. The clerk enters the address with an expiry mark so the list can be checked again.
At the first hearing under the pilot, two residents who had been listed as lodgers spoke before the housing schedule was set. One asked the table to publish room waits by household size. The other asked for the interpreter rota to be posted with the notice rather than after the date was chosen.
The hall will compare the comment roll with the meeting notices and record how many temporary addresses are renewed. The measure gives residents a way to be heard sooner; whether it becomes a city rule will depend on a public review of the entries and the obligations the hall can support.
