California Extends Protections for Residential Tenants to June 30, 2021
By EsqSocial Corporation 03/02/21
In August 2020 Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law the COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act of 2020. Among other protections, the law gave tenants who were unable to pay rent due to COVID-19-related distress for the period September 1, 2020 – January 31, 2021, until January 31, 2021 to pay 25 percent of the rent owed during that period to avoid eviction. Days before January 31, 2021, Governor Newsom signed another bill (SB-91) that gave tenants even more time to come up with 25 percent of the rent owed....
By: Lewitt Hackman