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States grapple with next steps on evictions as crisis grows
Dec. 18, 2020 at 5:00 am
Marshall Reddick told tenants in a Santa Monica apartment building that they would face eviction for not paying rent during the coronavirus pandemic. (Trulia)
Sara Cline, Associated Press/Report for America
Ryan Bowser looked somber as he sat in his cramped Oregon apartment, worried whether he, his pregnant girlfriend and her 10-year-old daughter would have a roof over their heads in the new year. It may well depend on state lawmakers.
The family is three months behind on the $1,165 in rent they pay for their two-bedroom unit in the college town of Corvallis. Bowser, a custodian at Oregon State University, took eight weeks off because he was sick and couldn’t afford child care.
Oregon lawmakers hear flood of testimony on extended eviction moratorium, new landlord compensation fund
Updated Dec 18, 2020;
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Oregon lawmakers heard fervent public testimony Thursday night as they continued to refine proposals meant to help landlords and tenants, restaurants and school districts ahead of Monday’s one-day special session.
A legislative committee took three hours of input on three proposed bills during a virtual public hearing. The vast majority of it focused on a proposal to extend the state’s residential eviction moratorium until the end of June for renters facing financial hardships, allocate $150 million to a new compensation fund for landlords whose tenants have fallen behind on payments and dedicate an additional $50 million to existing rental relief programs.
Eviction moratoriums instituted by 44 states beginning in March have mostly expired. In response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the federal moratorium in September that broadly prevents evictions through the end of 2020. The nationwide directive was seen as the best hope to prevent more than 23 million renters from being displaced.
Now, some states want to extend eviction bans further than the federal government. Lawmakers in heavily Democratic California are proposing their moratorium last until 2022, as long as renters pay at least 25% of their rent and attest to financial hardship.
And a six-month extension is the top issue for the Democratic-led Oregon Legislature in a special session Monday. Its one of 15 states where eviction moratoriums are now in place through year’s end, according to the Eviction Lab at Princeton University.
States grapple with next steps on evictions as crisis grows
by Sara Cline, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 17, 2020 12:02 am EDT
Last Updated Dec 17, 2020 at 12:12 am EDT
CORVALLIS, Ore. Ryan Bowser looked sombre as he sat in his cramped Oregon apartment, worried whether he, his pregnant girlfriend and her 10-year-old daughter would have a roof over their heads in the new year. It may well depend on state lawmakers.
The family is three months behind on the $1,165 in rent they pay for their two-bedroom unit in the college town of Corvallis. Bowser, a custodian at Oregon State University, took eight weeks off because he was sick and couldn’t afford child care.