SF Business Times: Permanent COVID-19 eviction moratorium aims to prevent 'wave of mass evictions'

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SF Business Times: Permanent COVID-19 eviction moratorium aims to prevent ‘wave of mass evictions’

June 11, 2020 – Laura Waxmann of the San Francisco Business Times covers the introduction of AB 1436, a bill co-sponsored by Public Advocates. The bill provides sweeping protections to renters who are suffering from the economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Managing Attorney Sam Tepperman-Gelfant is quoted:

“We’re seeing the impacts of systemic racism as Black and Brown communities are hit hardest by COVID-19. That same structural racism infects our housing system, and if landlords can kick people out of their homes for rent they were unable to pay during the state of emergency, Black and Brown families will once again bear the brunt.”

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Newsweek: California Housing Market Could Change Under New Bill

Even in cities building housing at scale, lower-income renters are being left behind and paying more. Newsweek reports on Public Advocates' co-sponsorship of SB 1091, a bill that would convert existing market-rate units into long-term affordable homes—putting state resources directly in the hands of the communities hardest hit by decades of redlining and disinvestment.

SF GATE: Calif.’s newest homelessness solution is letting college kids sleep in their cars

Public Advocates' Director of Legislative Affairs Michelle Pariset, speaks to the Sacramento Bee about this year's unusually hard advocacy to get stronger protections for renters in the most expensive state to rent, particularly as legislators speak out about making affordability concerns top priority.