As we recognize the anniversary of the first shutdown, I want to share with you an update on rental housing dynamics during Year I of the COVID-19 pandemic and where we are heading into Year II. Given everyone s initial collective hope for our new normal to be temporary, many early legislative efforts included long-ago sunset clauses or were date-specific. Hence, more recent work by our elected officials has been to extend and/or update early emergency measures, although with some consideration for wholesale reviews of responses given time and accumulating impact.
At the beginning of the shutdown a year ago, San Francisco Mayor London Breed ordered a citywide moratorium on residential evictions related to any financial impacts caused by COVID-19. This temporary eviction moratorium was then extended monthly as the pandemic continued, along with additional protections and provisions by the mayor and Board of Supervisors throughout the last year. Emergency legislation for a temporary
Aviation workers will be protected from furloughs through September under the bill President Biden signed Thursday, but a full travel recovery could take years.
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A bill seeking to raise Wyoming s minimum wage to $15 an hour was recently killed by the state legislature. But that doesn t mean the fight for $15 is going away.
The Southeast Wyoming Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are hosting a virtual forum on Thursday, March 11, to discuss and make the case for raising the minimum wage. While the federal minimum wage is $7.25, Wyoming s minimum wage is $5.15.
The effort to raise the state minimum wage mirrors the national debate about the federal minimum wage, in which progressives argue that the current minimum of less than $8 an hour falls far short of what people and families need to survive.
Federal judge says CDC didn t have power to order national eviction ban
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Moving trucks, workers and boxes dominate a street in New York City on May 27, 2020, shortly after Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered that renters cannot be thrown out for nonpayment due to hardship from the coronavirus crisis. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
March 11 (UPI) A federal judge in Ohio has ruled that federal regulators overstepped their authority in ordering a national moratorium on rental evictions after the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic last year.
U.S. District Court Judge Philip Calabrese ruled in favor Wednesday of a group of property owners who argued in October that the ban, ordered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was an overreach.