LOS ANGELES—State and local moratoriums on evictions in California enacted at the beginning COVID-19 continue to send temblors through the housing market. The state evictions, extended multiple times, expired on June 30. Some local moratoriums have continued. On Jan. 25, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors extended its COVID-19 Tenant Protections Resolution to Dec….

SACRAMENTO—California’s eviction moratorium was extended until June 30 to allow eligible tenants who have applied for rental assistance to receive their payments as the state runs behind on distributing funds. Assembly Bill (AB) 2179 introduced by Assemblymembers Tim Grayson (D-Concord) and Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) was passed in the state Senate on March 31 before being…

Los Angeles County extended its eviction moratorium for another 15 months. My guest is Chris Grey, president at Moss & Company Property Management. He discusses the details of the eviction moratorium and how the extension will impact the renters and landlords of Los Angeles.   Follow Epoch TV on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EpochTVus Twitter: https://twitter.com/EpochTVus Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/EpochTV Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/epochtv…

LOS ANGELES—Two landlord groups asked a Los Angeles County judge this week to put a stop to the county’s extended COVID-19 residential eviction moratorium, asserting the rules were unconstitutional. The county’s Board of Supervisors voted on Jan. 25 to extend the eviction moratorium in three phases, leaving some protections in place until the end of…

LOS ANGELES—Despite vehement opposition from one of its members, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted on Jan. 25 to extend eviction protections for many pandemic-impacted tenants in unincorporated areas through the end of the year. Supervisor Sheila Kuehl championed the extension of the eviction protection and associated freeze on rent hikes, insisting that…

September saw another monthly boost in the amount of emergency rental aid paid out to tenants under the federal rental assistance scheme, which despite efforts to pick up the pace of disbursement has so far managed to spend around a quarter of available funds to stave off evictions, according to the Treasury Department. The department said…

Landlords in California breathed a sigh of relief when the state’s eviction ban ended last week; however, the City of Los Angeles’s moratorium will continue as long as the city is in a state of local emergency. Bans on tenant evictions were implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic on a federal-, state-, and city-level; many of…

With California’s new eviction protections for tenants with unpaid rent valid through March 2022, landlords struggle to stay financially afloat as they wait for rent relief funds. Jonathan Madison, an eviction attorney, told The Epoch Times his clients have turned to taking out loans and filing for bankruptcy waiting to receive funds as their tenants…

August saw a marked rise in the amount of emergency rental aid paid out to needy tenants, though the Treasury Department says more needs to be done to accelerate payments. Treasury said in a Sept. 24 release that over $2.3 billion in rental aid payments was disbursed to more than 420,000 households nationwide last month,…

The eviction moratorium put forth in March of 2020 could be coming to an end come Oct. 1. Despite the continuing COVID-19-related issues California residents are experiencing, help from such laws may no longer be available. My guest is Jonathon Madison, lead attorney at the Madison Firm and opinion contributor to newspapers like the San…