Pamela Cruz. Pen sula 360 Press [P360P].
With California's eviction moratorium set to expire, about 240,000 households or two million people statewide are at risk of losing their homes, so a group of lawmakers is seeking to prevent such a catastrophe at least until it ends this year.
AB-15, introduced in December by San Francisco Democratic Assemblyman David Chiu, would prohibit landlords from evicting tenants economically harmed by the pandemic until Dec. 31, 2021.
This bill expands and improves AB-3088, an agreement also proposed by Chiu, approved by the state legislature and signed by Governor Gavin Newsom on August 31, 2020, which left some gaps regarding the issue of evictions, and whose deadline expires on January 31.
Thus, AB-15 would prohibit landlords from evicting tenants who have been financially harmed by the pandemic until December 31, 2021, and they will have until that date to pay 25 percent of the back rent they have accumulated.