• Ericthescruffy [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    If you think about it this is less about bailing out the tenants and more about bailing out the landlords.

        • Lucas [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          In that the clean slate means they can be charged again. It doesn't exactly make it so tenants suddenly have rent money.

            • Lucas [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              To my knowledge of what's going on with the status of the rent moratorium on California and this bit of the article:

              Left unsettled is whether California will continue to ban evictions for unpaid rent beyond June 30, a pandemic-related order that was meant to be temporary but is proving difficult to undo.

              Federal eviction protections also are set to expire on June 30. California had passed its own protections that applied to more people than the federal protections.

            • MarxMadness [comrade/them]
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              3 years ago

              That's what it looks like, yeah:

              Lloyd — a member of the advocacy group Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment — is supposed to pay $1,924 a month for a two-bedroom, two-bathroom rent-controlled apartment in the Crenshaw district of south Los Angeles. But she says she's $30,000 behind after not working for most of the last year to care for her two children as daycare centers closed and schools halted in-person learning.

              That debt will likely be covered by the government.

              So that back rent should be covered, but (so far) she would still owe going forward.