A program offering remote workers $10,000 to move to Tulsa is trying something new.
New Tulsa Remote participants can ask for the full cash grant upfront to put toward buying a house. We want individuals who are going to come to Tulsa, who are going to fall in love with this great city that we all love, and who are going to want to be here and remain a meaningful part of the community. And we found that many, many people who were coming into the program were absolutely loving Tulsa, were loving the community and wanted to make that commitment, said Tulsa Remote Community Manager Grant Bumgarner.
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A state House committee approved a bill on Wednesday that would prevent courts from halting evictions, even during a health emergency like the COVID-19 pandemic.
House Bill 1564 says courts have no discretion to extend terms of a lease. Some supporters, including bill author Rep. Tom Gann (R-Inola), said they’ve talked to landlords with tenants who simply refused to pay because they couldn’t be evicted during a federal moratorium. These were people who some of them were not affected at all by the COVID, and they were doing everything that they could to skirt the rent and steal a man’s labor, Gann said.