...Title
Adoption of 2021 COVID-19 Residential Eviction Moratorium for Tenants Financially Impacted by COVID-19.
...Recommendations
(a) Accept the staff report on economic indicators to guide City Council’s decision-making regarding the eviction moratorium.
(b) Adopt an Urgency Ordinance enacting a temporary moratorium on no-cause evictions and evictions due to nonpayment of rent for residential tenants and mobilehome owners who have been financially impacted by COVID-19, to be effective through the period of the local State of Emergency or, if earlier, the effective date of any new State legislation providing eviction protections for tenants affected by COVID-19 that preempts this moratorium.
(1) Invoke the urgency provisions in the City Charter, as an emergency measure for immediate preservation of the public peace, health and/or safety, to include additional provisions protecting against eviction of a tenant for nonpayment of rent, if that tenant meets the criteria listed in the ordinance regarding COVID-19.
PLEASE NOTE: APPROVAL OF THIS URGENCY ORDINANCE REQUIRES 8 OR MORE AFFIRMATIVE VOTES (2/3)
(c) Approve a Companion Ordinance enacting a temporary moratorium on no-cause evictions and evictions due to nonpayment of rent for residential tenants and mobilehome owners who have been financially impacted by COVID-19, to be effective through the period of the local State of Emergency or, if earlier, the effective date of any new State legislation providing eviction protections for tenants affected by COVID-19 that preempts this moratorium.
CEQA: Not a Project, File No. PP17-008, General Procedure and Policy Making resulting in no changes to the physical environment. (Housing)
[Rules Committee referral 1/20/2021 - Item A.1.a]