Posted on 03/27/2020 5:19:09 PM PDT by david1292
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced a temporary ban on evictions statewide for those affected by the novel coronavirus.
The measure prevents the evictions of renters over the nonpayment of rent through May 31. It covers those who have lost work because of the pandemic, have become sick or have had to take care of family members with COVID-19. Law enforcement and the court system also would be prohibited from executing evictions while the order is in effect.
Renters would still be required to eventually pay all the rent they owe, and must notify their landlords in writing within seven days of their nonpayment, according to the governor’s executive order.
The order, which comes days before many rent payments are due on April 1, is stronger than prior action the governor had taken to allow cities and counties to pass their own moratoriums on evictions. Since then, housing activists around California and some legislators had been urging Newsom to go further. About 50 of the state’s 539 cities and counties have passed their own anti-eviction measures since the pandemic began, according to a letter to Newsom from more than dozen lawmakers this week.
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Just another democrat dictator.
Renters would still be required to eventually pay all the rent they owe
Some how I don’t think this is going to be enforced, sure many may not have a job to go back to and honestly have loss income and then you have the leeches and the lazy who will suck it dry for everything its worth and be protected by the judges and the government
This is all starting to look like the old testament.
You are correct. There are many more renters than landlords, meaning there are lots of renter votes are waiting to be harvested.
Is that a dictum for commercial businesses unable to pay rent too?
so what happens if the landlord wants to sell his rental property? or if he or she dies and the rental property passes to the offspring? etc.
The Left has been slowly squeezing landlords for years, with the ultimate goal of discouraging anyone from being a landloard and allowing the State to take over housing.
Many moons ago I owned some rental houses, all bought with a single mortgage. The rents paid the mortgage. I was unemployed for awhile during those years. Had my tenants not been paying their rents at that time, and if the government said “a crisis” allowed my tenants to get away with not paying their rents, and that went on for some months, I might have been forced to default on my mortgage and lose the properties, if the economic conditions also meant finding a buyer would be difficult.
Can landlords in California sue and claim the governors’ action constitutes a “taking” without compensation.
Is there any limit to the dictatorial power bestowed by this virus?
i vaguely recall rent control taking hold in berkeley many years ago...
Not the time for evictions.
Offset the rental revenue losses with property tax relief.
Nope.
And judges are on the side of the wannabee dictators. No judge wants to tell these governors “no” during a crisis. And that’s what is REAL concerning.
And how does the landlord make payments to the bank for the property loans, without renters paying? Think! This entire system is collapsing around us. It’s going to get ugly very fast. You will be stunned.
What about the rent we pay to the government in the form of “Property Taxes”?
Why no relief from that bill?
When this is all done,America will be transformed more than POS Obama could ever dream of.
Via the property tax relief that I mentioned.
Roving, opportunistic crime has already begun. Underscores the value of deferring evictions.
Property tax relief isn’t a revenue generating event to pay a bank loan with. It is just the absence of another payment.
Yep.
The government has become more powerful over the last 2 weeks than at any other time in the modern era.
We are going to lose a lot of freedom after this. And just wait until the great panicdemic of 2021.
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