“And that’s what really irks me about this,” Wingert said. “In my opinion, you don’t write the book for the minority. You write it for the majority.”

Fellow real estate agent Gale Bonsall argued hundreds, if not thousands, of tenants would be displaced if the city reduced the number of unrelated roommates allowed in a rental home.

“Where are they going to go?” Bonsall asked.

Abraham said displacement would not be a problem, as the switch to the new rule would occur over five years time.

Abraham had previously pushed for prohibiting rentals to as few as only two unrelated persons, but told the task force Thursday he was taking that idea off the table.

The question remained however: If single-family homes should only be rented out to families, what constitutes a family?

Task force member Chris Wernimont — a local landlord — asked whether an unmarried couple and their respective children would make the cut.

“I don't want to get bogged down in us trying to define a family,” Abraham said, adding that’s something city staff could sort out. “The concept was to keep family neighborhoods as family neighborhoods.”