While our state may be emerging from the pandemic, in many ways, the lingering financial impact still weighs heavily on California families. “Our housing situation in California was a crisis before COVID, and the pandemic has only made it worse - this extension is key to making sure that more people don’t lose the safety net helping them keep their home. That’s why I am thankful for today’s news from the Legislature – protecting low-income tenants with a longer eviction moratorium and paying down their back-rent and utility bills – all thanks to the nation’s largest and most comprehensive rental assistance package, which I am eager to sign into law as soon as I receive it.” “California is coming roaring back from the pandemic, but the economic impacts of COVID-19 continue to disproportionately impact so many low-income Californians, tenants and small landlords alike. Additionally, the bill ensures rental assistance dollars stay in California by prioritizing cities and counties with unmet needs, and uses the judicial process to ensure tenants and landlords have attempted to obtain rental assistance.
Provisions include increasing reimbursement to 100 percent for both rent that is past due and prospective payments for both tenants and landlords. The agreement widens rental assistance by enhancing current law. The three-party agreement on AB 832 – which extends the current eviction moratorium through Septem– will ensure that California quickly uses the more than $5 billion in federal rental assistance to help the state’s tenants and small landlords and protect vulnerable households from eviction. SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders of both the Senate and the Assembly today announced a proposed extension of California’s statewide evictions moratorium, and an increase in compensation for California’s rent relief program.
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