BREAKING: Newsom Announces New Statewide Eviction Moratorium – But Major Concessions May Threaten Tenants

TLDR rent protections (thread) ... https://www.kqed.org/news/11835565/newsom-announces-new-statewide-eviction-moratorium-but-major-concessions-may-threaten-tenants

- missed rent btwn March 1 and Aug. 31 is civil debt, can't be evicted for it

- must pay 25% of missed rent from period Sept. 1 and Jan. 31, remaining 75% civil debt and can't be evicted for it

- cities can't pass NEW eviction moratoria until Feb 1, existing ones are fine

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- 3-day notice at start of eviction process is now a 15-day notice

- courts can begin processing non-payment of rent evictions Oct. 5 (though they wanted another month)

- no mortgage forbearance, as previously was part of the bill

Here's how the different advocact orgs reacted to the bill.

First, the landlord folks @caanet:

Now the tenant advocates @CalOrganize: