#eviction-moratorium

#eviction-moratorium

When the website AlamedaRentersRights.com launched recently, it seemed innocuous enough.It claimed to be aimed at informing renters in Alameda County about tenant protectionsan issue of increased interest since the county's eviction moratorium expired last week.It even features a video on its homepage featuring two Alameda County supervisors, David Haubert and Lena Tam, encouraging renters to know their rights.

"I think we are going to see a lot of displacement, and this is going to affect lower-income community members more than those with higher incomes," said Michelle Starratt, housing director for Alameda County."We looked very closely at what was happening in surrounding communities like Contra Costa and Santa Clara County when their eviction moratoriums ended last fall," she said.

A photo illustration of Los Angeles Councilmembers Nithya Raman and John Lee (Getty) Landlords in Los Angeles must now pay to relocate tenants who move after a large rent increase.The Los Angeles City Council has adopted an ordinance requiring landlords to pay relocation assistance to tenants who move out after getting rent increases of 10 percent or more, City News Service reported in the Los Angeles Daily News.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (Getty) Los Angeles has greatly expanded protections for renters, heading off a potential wave of evictions.The L.A. City Council voted to enact permanent tenant protections 11 days before a policy expires that prevents landlords from evicting tenants who claimed COVID-19-related hardships, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Los Angeles Councilmembers Bob Blumenfield and Nithya Raman (Getty) Los Angeles is poised to enact permanent tenant protections after a policy expires that prevents landlords from evicting tenants who claimed COVID-19-related hardships.A package of proposals to further protect renters passed out of the Housing & Homelessness Committee and is set for a City Council vote on Friday, the Pasadena Star-News reported.

In a puzzling phenomenon, the city of San Francisco spends hundreds of millions of dollars to house the homeless population.But it also spends millions of dollars evicting some of those same people from the very housing they were placed in.There is currently an eviction moratorium in San Francisco.Yet the city of San Francisco (or rather, the city's Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing) evicts hundreds of people every year ironically, evicting through their programs, from buildings we call single-room occupancy (SRO) hotels.

A new state ballot initiative backed by Kilroy Realty is hoping to invalidate Measure ULA, a recently passed measure that adds hefty taxes on commercial and residential sales over $5 million in the city of Los Angeles.Proponents of the initiative have garnered enough signatures more than 1 million in total to place the new proposal on the 2024 ballot, according to the California Secretary of State.

Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León showed up for Tuesday's council meeting nearly two hours into the proceedings, prompting council President Paul Krekorian to immediately call a recess.Council members walked out of the chamber as competing groups of spectators screamed,with protesters angrily yelling for De León to leave and supporters of the council member chanting his name and " Sí, se puede."

A Crown Heights man facing eviction from his home of 15 years has no legal protection as a tenant in an unregulated building, and his lawyers with the Legal Aid Society said his was the latest example of the need for Good Cause legislation to bolster renter protections.Darrel Stone is being evicted from his Crown Heights apartment after his landlord filed a notice in October claiming the lease had not been renewed, and that Stone owed him money - claims which Stone disputes.

Newmark's Kevin Shannon, Marcus & Millichap's Jordan Asheghian and Tony Azzi, Stepp Commercial's Travis Traweek and Waterford's John Drachman (Newmark, Marcus & Millichap, Stepp Commercial, Waterford Property Company) Thinking about selling a commercial property?Do it now.That's the advice brokers are giving to their clients across the board, after the city of Los Angeles passed a new transfer tax that would apply to all commercial and residential properties that sell for more than $10 million.

Is regulation as we know it unconstitutional?It's not inconceivable that, sometime soon, the US Supreme Court could reach such a conclusion, invalidating much of the vast administrative apparatus created to promote such public goods as clean air, workplace safety and financial stability.The court is right to worry about America's dozens of regulatory agencies abusing their power or becoming an unaccountable fourth branch of government.

Developer Geoff Palmer with one of his properties (Getty, G.H. Palmer Associates) A federal judge has dismissed billionaire developer Geoff Palmer's lawsuit that challenged Los Angeles' COVID-19 emergency eviction moratorium, the Los Angeles Times reported.The moratorium, which is still in effect, prohibits landlords from evicting tenants due to COVID-related nonpayment of rent, among other things.