Title
Adopt an Ordinance to Extend the Time Period for Repayment of Unpaid Rent that Accumulated During the City's Residential Eviction Moratorium to One Year
Staffreport
COUNCIL PRIORITY
* Housing and Homelessness
* Race and Equity Initiatives
* Community & Business Development
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt an Ordinance to extend the time period for repayment of unpaid rent that accumulated during the City's residential Eviction Moratorium to one year.
BACKGROUND
In response to the outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Governor of California proclaimed a state of emergency throughout California on March 4, 2020. Thereafter, the San Leandro Director of Emergency Services proclaimed a local emergency which was ratified by the City Council on March 16, 2020. Soon, health officers in the Bay Area (and later throughout California) issued orders directing residents to shelter at home and limit activity, travel, and business to only the most essential needs. These health orders caused businesses of all types to cease, or substantially reduce operations. This caused many employees to lose jobs or have their hours reduced.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and shelter-in-place orders requiring most people to stay at home, the San Leandro City Council adopted Ordinance No. 2020-003, as an urgency ordinance, to enact a residential and commercial eviction moratorium (the commercial eviction moratorium terminated in September 2021). Ordinance No. 2020-003 was a temporary measure intended to promote stability and fairness within the residential and commercial rental market in the City during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, and to prevent avoidable homelessness and evictions thereby serving the peace, health, safety, and public welfare and to enable tenants in the City whose incomes and ability to work are affected by COVID-19 to remain in their homes and businesses.
Ordinance No. 2020-003 provided that the eviction morato...
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