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PROVIDED BY THE APARTMENT ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES
MAY
LEGISLATURE PASSES ASSEMBLY BILL 2179 TO EXTEND STATE’S EVICTION PROTECTIONS
On Thursday, March 31, 2022, the California Legislature passed Assembly Bill 2179 authored by Assembly Member Grayson, which extends the statewide eviction moratorium from April 1, 2022, until June 30, 2022, and preempts certain local eviction moratoriums from being extended. Previously, eviction protections afforded tenants under Assembly Bill 832 were set to expire on March 31, 2022. Rental housing providers subject to the City of Los Angeles’ and City of Beverly Hills’ (and quite possibly, Pasadena’s) moratoriums on evictions and rent increases are not impacted by this latest extension (these Cities’ moratoriums are not preempted by Assembly Bill 2179). The purpose in passing the bill is to give California more time
to distribute rental assistance funds through the “Housing is Key” rent assistance program.
Under this latest extension, ONLY those renters who have applied for rental relief by the March 31, 2022, deadline will be eligible for eviction protections beyond March 31, 2022, while their application for relief is pending, and protections will now remain in place for those that have applied until June 30, 2022. In addition, the original period to repay past due COVID rental debt has been extended from May 1, 2022, to May 31, 2023, under previous Assembly Bill 832 to now August 1, 2022, to August 31, 2023, or pushed out another three (3) months. Additionally, all notices to “pay rent or quit” demanding payment of COVID-related rental debt will require new language if served on or after April 1, 2022, and before July 1, 2022. The new notice to “pay rent or quit” language must include the following text in at least 12-point type:
“NOTICE FROM THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA:
If:
(1) Before October 1, 2021, you paid your landlord at least 25 percent of any rent you missed between September 1, 2020, and September 30, 2021, and you signed and returned on time any and all declarations of COVID-19 related financial distress that your landlord gave to you,
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