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they anticipated some owners just going out of business. Although the State of California has been paying some tenant’s rent who claim they are impacted by COVID-19, the State has now announced the end of the Housing is Key program effective March 31, 2022, which leaves the owners with no income from non=paying tenants for a full year in the future and no ability to evict.
Lastly, I keep asking myself, what will happen under the State’s latest COVID-19 protections passed under Assembly Bill 2179? How many of those impacted by these latest protections will lose their properties to foreclosure? Here’s a very scary scenario - I speculate, after not having any facts, that the properties will be reverting to the mortgage companies and then might be acquired by the State to house those that cannot afford rent just as Russia did in 1917.
If you think about it this type of government “expropriation” would help solve the homeless problem. The difference I see is that local governments will use a one-bedroom apartment for more than one tenant. Additionally, allowing time to pass in order for the Government to determine what it might want from those tenants. Well, study Russian Revolution of 1917 and you might understand. It’s basically called Communism.
Michael D., Los Angeles On the U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Re: Apartment Association of
Greater Los Angeles vs. City of Los Angeles
I want to thank you, Daniel, for all your effort bringing the eviction moratorium to the U.S. Supreme Court even if it was turned down. As you must be aware, it is not necessary to win every battle to win the war. Keep up the good fight. I am here if I can be of any assistance.
In my opinion, California has a communist stranglehold on ill-informed voters, conservatives are being held hostage by the California sunshine, and business owners and landlords will not have relief until common sense California voters are educated on the frivolous spending by government of their tax dollars. People listen when it impacts their pocketbooks! That is happening!
Have you thought of contacting Project Veritas to do undercover videos of rent relief tenants pulling up to a 5-star hotel like the Ritz Carlton Hotel while driving in their new convertibles with their Louie Vuitton purses and Gucci luggage?
Well, I hope I made you laugh. However, a photograph and/or a video is worth a thousand words sometimes. And, by the way, has a May 2022 hearing date been set in Federal Court for the eviction moratorium imposed by the County of Los
Angeles?
Linda C., Long Beach On City of Ventura Proposed “No-Fault” Eviction Limitations for
Substantial Remodels, and Rent Registry
I had been actively involved from an owner’s perspective in the City of Santa Monica for a long time. My family chose to sell a building they had kept in the family for over 50 years because of rent control’s crazy restrictions and burdens on owners. I know the negative consequences of rent regulations.
Not once last night (City Council Meeting on April 25, 2022) did I hear any empathy for the horrible financial situation many rental housing providers have had to endure these past few years - tenants not paying rent, skyrocketing inflation, skyrocketing labor costs for maintenance, etc. It doesn’t seem like a good business to be in for those of us who try to be fair with their rental rates and practices. Here are the buzz words I heard at the City Council meeting last night: “housing equity,” “slum lords,” “sock it to them with fines,” “retroactive tenant protections” and more! It was not a very friendly or inclusive meeting for rental property owners, was it?
You may want to reflect on what you are allowing to be built here in Ventura such as the many, many expensive corporate owned apartments. Not as many condominiums are being built these days, I guess. Single-family homes don’t “pencil- out” for rentals nowadays unless one buys very high end properties and rents them as vacation rentals such as on AirBNB or Vrbo.
Ventura’s older rental housing stock is quite limited in numbers and only rarely are units available on the market. You can contact the Ventura County Board of Realtors or Ventura County itself, and I am sure they would be happy to provide
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