[SUBMISSION] SERI makes a submission on the Rental Housing Tribunal Regulations (3 June 2021).
On Sunday, SERI made a submission to the Department of Human Settlements on the Rental Housing Tribunal Regulations. On 1 April 2021, the Minister of Human Settlements, Lindiwe Sisulu, published the Rental Housing Tribunal Regulations, 2018 for public comment. The regulations seek to standardise processes and procedures in the proceedings of the Rental Housing Tribunals. SERI has read and considered the draft regulations and makes this submission to the Department of Human Settlements in accordance with the invitation to submit written comments.
SERI’s submission provides background to the organisation and its work, contextualises the affordable rental sector, comments on the content of the draft regulations, and makes recommendations in relation to each
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Landlords strangled by Covid-19 lockdown regulations on evictions
Cape Town - Landlords are struggling at every turn.
And extended lockdown regulations that prevent them from being able to evict long-term non-paying tenants, is adding to their burden.
Now the DA is calling on the government to amend Regulation 73(2) that empowers a court to stay all eviction proceedings for the duration of the national state of disaster, which at present is an indefinite period.
Andrew Schaefer, managing director of property management group Trafalgar, says long delays in being able to action any eviction orders that were obtained has exacerbated the grave loss of rental income for many landlords over the past year.