City of Long Beach - File #: 21-1276

• File #: 21-1276
• Version: 2
• Name: DS - Just Cause for Termination of Tenancies
• Type: Emergency Ordinance
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 11/11/2021
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 12/7/2021
• Final action: 1/4/2022
• Title: Recommendation to adopt ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending Chapter 8.102 to extend the prohibition on termination of certain lawful residential tenancies through February 28, 2022; declaring the urgency thereof; and declaring that this ordinance shall take effect immediately, read and adopt as read. (Citywide) (Emergency Ordinance No. ORD-21-0039)
• Sponsors: Development Services

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/4/2022	2	City Council	approve recommendation and adopt	Pass
12/7/2021	1	City Council	approve recommendation to declare Emergency Ordinance No. ORD- , read, and adopted as read and laid over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for final reading	Pass
12/7/2021	1	City Council	approve recommendation to declare an emergency to exist	Pass

TITLE
Recommendation to adopt ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending Chapter 8.102 to extend the prohibition on termination of certain lawful residential tenancies through February 28, 2022; declaring the urgency thereof; and declaring that this ordinance shall take effect immediately, read and adopt as read. (Citywide)
(Emergency Ordinance No. ORD-21-0039)

DISCUSSION
On July 13, 2021, the City Council approved an Ordinance establishing a temporary prohibition on substantial remodel lease termination notices and evictions, establishing a moratorium through December 31, 2021. The City Council also asked staff to: (1) explore the feasibility of, and costs associated with, establishing a Renovation Administration Program (RAP), and (2) meet with tenant and property owner representatives to discuss such a program and alternative options to address substantial remodel-related displacement.

This analysis is built upon a larger study conducted in 2018 when tenant and owner representatives joined City staff for a series of meetings to discuss potential tenant protection policies to address rising rents and tenant displacement. At that time a report on Tenant Assistance Policies was prepared, and the City Council adopted a Tenant Relocation Ordinance requiring property owners to pay relocation benefits to tenants that received a notice of annual rent increase of at least 10 percent and to tenants in good standing that received a notice to vacate (Long Beach Municipal Code (LBMC) Chapter 8.97). The policy was rescinded by the City Council in connection with the State’s adoption of Assembly Bill 1482 (AB 1482).

In order to address concerns that tenants were being unnecessarily displaced by substantial remodel projects, on February 18, 2020, the City Council passed an Ordinance (Just Cause Ordinance) generally adopting the just cause eviction provisions of AB 1482 (Attachment A) and providing more specificity with respect to conditions under whic...