Commentary
For the last three years, countless ears have been deaf to the cries of injustice from property owners and landlords throughout California.
They cry injustice over a well-intended eviction moratorium. A moratorium that has left behind a troubling void of millions in unpaid rents, the collateral damage of foreclosures, bankruptcies, and displaced landlords and tenants statewide. Once again, our state has collectively failed to heed history’s greatest lesson: that “what affects one of us, affects all of us.”
George Wu, a property owner I represent, is one of those landlords crying injustice. Mr. Wu cries injustice because his tenant has not paid any rent for the past three years. He cries injustice because he is left without an advocate in the state or local municipality who will fight to recoup his nearly $150,000 in unpaid rents. He cries injustice because he has nearly faced the prospect of a foreclosure on his property as a result of his tenant’s refusal to pay rent….