The Los Angeles City Council has adopted Feb. 3 an ordinance providing tenants who are behind on their rent with a one-month grace period prior to their landlord beginning eviction proceedings, but there were not enough votes for it to take effect immediately. The ordinance is part of a package of renter aid the council…

LOS ANGELES—Two apartment owner groups filed court papers on March 7 challenging Los Angeles County’s pandemic-related eviction moratorium, which provides extended protections beginning next month for tenants who fail to pay rent. The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles and the Apartment Owners Association of California brought the still unofficial legal action in Los Angeles…

The New York State landlord association has asked federal court to put on hold the state’s eviction moratorium extension, saying it violates their property, due process, and First Amendment rights. The Supreme Court already stopped the previous moratorium, but the state legislature tweaked the policy and passed it again. The association says the policy is…

Concerns are rising around how secure America’s government agencies are after a new Senate report found the average cybersecurity score of federal agencies is only a C-minus. This comes as a group of landlords and real estate companies are suing over the Biden administration’s new eviction moratorium. Attorneys for the plaintiffs filed an emergency application Wednesday…

Millions could stay in their homes after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just issued a new eviction ban. It comes after the previous one expired over the weekend. The CDC says evicting people could be detrimental to public health, and it will halt evictions in counties where virus cases are rising—covering 90 percent of…

The CDC issued a new eviction ban for most of the U.S. even after courts ruled the last one unconstitutional. We have reactions from lawmakers and an apartment association. President Joe Biden called on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) to resign amid sexual harassment allegations. Several Democratic governors in neighboring states are doing the…

Details on the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill are out. What will it do to our national debt and inflation? We ask two experts. The eviction ban expires. We bring you the stories of both tenants and landlords caught up in this issue. Square says it’ll purchase “buy now, pay later” pioneer Afterpay. It’ll create a…

The U.S. government’s eviction ban expires. It’s a sigh of relief for landlords across the country, but millions of Americans who are behind on rent could soon be evicted. The infrastructure bill is unveiled. A bipartisan group finalized the text over an uncommon weekend session. We’ll tell you how many Republican senators some say are…

Some California landlords are pleading with state and local governments to end the eviction moratorium on rental properties as planned June 30, rather than extending it. Dan Faller, founder and chairman of the Apartment Owners Association of California, said some residents have been taking advantage of the moratorium. “They’re stealing from apartment owners, and it’s…