Title
First Reading of an Ordinance Amending Ordinance No. 2023-001 To Terminate the City's Eviction Moratorium effective July 31, 2023.
Staffreport
COUNCIL PRIORITY
* Housing and Homelessness
* Race and Equity Initiatives
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff presents for the City Council's consideration:
1) First Reading of an Ordinance to Amend Ordinance No. 2023-001 To Terminate the City's Eviction Moratorium effective July 31, 2023 (Attachment A).
BACKGROUND
In response to 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 that was ratified by the City Council on March 16, 2020. Soon thereafter, 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 preserving the peace, health, safety, and public welfare and to enable tenants in the City whose incomes and ability to work were affected by COVID-19 to remain in their homes and businesses.
Ordinance No. 2020-003 provided that the eviction moratorium would terminate on the later of: 1) May 31, ...
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