Tenants can only apply to the rent relief program if they have outstanding unpaid rent due to a loss of income caused by the pandemic, as the state’s full moratorium on evictions due to pandemic-related income loss ended Sept. 30, 2021.
AB 2179 will also prevent some local governments from enforcing their own COVID-related eviction protections until after July 1, if they were originally adopted after Aug. 19, 2020. State officials enacted a last-minute extension Thursday of some pandemic-related eviction protections, just hours before the deadline for tenants to apply for rent relief.
While the state has dispersed some $2.5 billion to cover tenants’ unpaid rent, roughly 284,000 applications are still pending, according to data from the state’s rent relief program. Tenants will have until 11:59 p.m. Thursday to apply to the program. In addition to protecting tenants with pending rent relief applications, AB 2179 will also prevent some local governments from enforcing their own COVID-related eviction protections until after July 1 if they were originally adopted after Aug. 19, 2020.
AB 2179 also drew opposition from tenants’ rights advocates, who echoed the same concerns as Wiener and Ting. The California Rental Housing Association said in a March 25 statement that it opposed AB 2179, with the group’s president Christine Kevane La Marca arguing that pandemic-era protections were no longer necessary as the virus has receded statewide and many other state health mandates have been rescinded over the last two months.
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