Opinion: It’s time for Los Angeles politicians to end the eviction moratoriums
One of the country’s longest-running eviction bans continues. Last month, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved another extension of its eviction moratorium, citing rising cases of COVID-19, flu, and other respiratory illnesses. The motion approved by the board prohibits the eviction of lower-income delinquent tenants who claim a COVID-19-related financial hardship through January.
But landlords say Los Angeles County’s decision imperils their businesses in the name of an emergency that’s long since passed. “It’s been a severe financial strain that’s been put on the backs of what are mostly independent, small rental property owners that have had to deal with COVID in their own families,” said Daniel Yukelson, executive director of the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles .
In response, the county updated its moratorium to remove tenants’ ability to self-certify they’d suffered COVID-related hardship and more clearly define what counts as a COVID-related hardship.That policy was supposed to sunset at the end of 2022. But the board of supervisors says the extension through at least the end of January is necessary given the “respiratory illness trifecta” of COVID, flu, and respiratory syncytial virus cases.
The federal government, almost all states, and many local governments adopted moratoriums on removing tenants for nonpayment of rent early in 2020 due to the pandemic. Moratorium supporters argued that the policies were necessary to preserve unemployed tenants’ ability to abide by the lockdown orders that may have cost them a job and the ability to pay rent.
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