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San Diego leaders adopted a countywide temporary rent cap Tuesday and new rules to make evictions more difficult for landlords during the pandemic.
The new ordinance takes effect in early June and lasts until sometime in August. Landlords under the new law can no longer evict tenants for “just cause” reasons, such as lease violations, and can only be removed if they are an “imminent health or safety threat.” This makes it one of the strictest anti-eviction laws in the state.
It also blocks a homeowner from moving back into their property and kicking a renter out, which is allowed now by law.
Capitol Mum On Eviction Moratorium Extension As Renters Seek More Time Sunday, May 2, 2021 | Sacramento, CA
Helen Duffy, back right, a West Oakland landlord holds up a sign decrying SB 91, a rent relief plan signed into law earlier that day by Gov. Gavin Newsom, during a vigil at the Elihu M. Harris, State of California office building in Oakland.
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With two months to go before a statewide eviction moratorium expired in January, lawmakers, lobbyists and the governor’s staff were already deep into negotiations on an extension. They reached it just days before the deadline, providing six more months of a ban on eviction.
Oakland council president tweet-blames Mayor Libby Schaaf over budget delay
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Oakland City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas, seen here after assuming office in 2019, took to Twitter Saturday to criticize the mayor over a delayed budget proposal.Yalonda M James / The Chronicle
In the latest public disagreement between Oakland’s top two leaders, the City Council president accused Mayor Libby Schaaf on Saturday of “impeding the vital work” for failing to submit a proposed city budget by the May 1 deadline.
“I’m very concerned that the Mayor failed to meet her responsibility,” council president Nikki Fortunato Bas said in a prepared release she shared as part of a thread on Twitter Saturday morning.
County may boost eviction protections
Eviction protections across San Diego County could be getting a lot stronger. On Tuesday, the County Board of Supervisors will consider an ordinance that would place further limits on when a landlord can force a tenant to leave amid the pandemic.
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Eviction protections across San Diego County could be getting a lot stronger.
On Tuesday, the County Board of Supervisors will consider an ordinance that would place further limits on when a landlord can force a tenant to leave amid the pandemic.
107,000 San Diegans remain out of work more than a year into the Coronavirus outbreak.