California leaders have reached an agreement to extend the state’s eviction moratorium through the end of June in an effort to stave off an expected surge in housing displacement as Covid continues to spread. The plan, agreed on by top legislative leaders and the governor, extends until 30 June a state law scheduled to expire next Monday that prevents landlords from evicting tenants who could not pay their rent between March and August because.
SACRAMENTO
Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders have agreed to a proposal to extend through June protections against evictions for California tenants financially harmed by the COVID-19 pandemic, an effort that would head off what some warn could be a housing crisis in the state, officials said Monday.
The proposal ironed out with Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood) and Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) and introduced in legislation made public Monday would also create a rent subsidy program using up to $2.6 billion in federal rental relief dollars.
The deal, confirmed by the governor, would help renters who have collectively fallen behind by hundreds of millions of dollars as the pandemic’s shutdown of the economy has put many out of work. Current state protections against eviction expire Jan. 31. But some tenant advocates said the proposal does not go far enough.
Despite pandemic eviction bans, people are still losing their homes
By Brooks Jarosz and Caroline Hart
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Despite pandemic eviction bans, people are still losing their homes
Brooks Jarosz reports about the precarious position of California tenants who are on the verge of losing protections against evictions during the pandemic.
Jean Kendrick, and her son, Stanley Jackson, who has a disability, are currently without a home during a global pandemic.
They were recently evicted from their apartment in Richmond, and now live in an extended-stay hotel. The room they’re in is uncomfortable, and they can’t afford it. We’re about ready to run out of money, Kendrick said.
Tuesday, January 5, 2021 | Sacramento, CA
A man walks in front of a For Rent sign in a window of a residential property in San Francisco, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020.
AP Photo/Jeff Chiu
After four years of living uneventfully in a Victorian-style apartment building in Midtown Sacramento, Bobby Castagna says he never thought he d be out of a place to live. But that changed this past summer, when Castagna and his eight neighbors got an eviction notice.
Their landlords, owners of the two apartment buildings above the University Art Center store at 26th and J streets, have said they plan to demolish the buildings because they ve fallen into disrepair. But Castagna and others are upset that the city s Tenant Protection Program has allowed the eviction to go through during a pandemic.
By Liam Dillon
Los Angeles Times Dec 25, 2020
Dec 25, 2020
LOS ANGELES â Weary after months of sleeping on other people s couches, Martha Escudero walked through the broken door of an empty home in Los Angeles El Sereno neighborhood and started bringing it back to life.
She fixed the garbage disposal, turned the garage into a classroom for her 11- and 8-year-old daughters and harvested squash and sweet potatoes from a vegetable garden she planted.
Her homesteading, part of an organized effort by tenant activists in March, was illegal, but it worked. The Los Angeles Housing Authority this fall granted occupancy rights to the family of Escudero and others who had seized numerous homes that the state acquired as part of now-abandoned plans to extend the 710 Freeway.