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Recommendation to request City Attorney to draft an urgency ordinance for review at the November 12, 2019 City Council meeting, to prohibit no-fault notices and no-fault evictions through December 31, 2019.
DISCUSSION
The California legislature passed the Tenant Protection Act of 2019, Assembly Bill 1482 ("AB 1482"), effective beginning January 1, 2020, which prohibits evictions without "just cause" and owners of residential rental property from increasing rents each year more than 5 percent plus the percentage change in the cost of living or 10 percent, whichever is lower. Gov. Newsom signed AB 1482 on Oct. 8, 2019.
AB 1482 will provide renter protections to approximately 60% of the City's residents, who are renter households in the City of Long Beach.
In anticipation of AB 1482's implementation, no-fault eviction notices, threats of eviction, and evictions have surged in Long Beach, Southern California and throughout the State. The delayed implementation of AB 1482 has caused an incentive for landlords to evict tenants to avoid AB 1482's protections in a predatory manner that is harming the health and safety of Long Beach residents. No Fault 60 Day Notices served on or after Nov. 3, 2019 will expire on or after Jan. 1,2020, and therefore they will be legally invalid pursuant to AB 1482. Therefore, this urgency ordinances protects the City's residents from invalid Notices to Vacate.
Municipalities throughout the State have passed, or are about to vote on, urgency ordinances to protect renters from no-fault evictions through December 31, 2019, to prevent homelessness and displacement of long term residents during the holiday season. The following cities have passed, or are about to vote on, such urgency ordinances: City of LA; Cudahy; Bell Gardens; Pasadena; Torrance; Milpitas; Redwood ?City; Daly City; and Santa Cruz. Moreover, the County of LA and Inglewood recently adopted ordinances to protect tenants with deeper tenant protections than AB 1482...
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