CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 16Introduced by Assembly Member ChiuDecember 07, 2020 An act relating to tenancies. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 16, as introduced, Chiu. Tenancies: Tenant, Small Landlord, and Affordable Housing Provider Stabilization Act of 2021.Existing law, the COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act of 2020, establishes certain procedural requirements and limitations on evictions for nonpayment of rent due to COVID-19 rental debt, as defined. The act prohibits a tenant that delivers a declaration of COVID-19-related financial distress from being deemed in default with regard to the COVID-19 rental debt, as specified. Existing law defines COVID-19 rental debt as unpaid rent or any other unpaid financial obligation of a tenant that came due between March 1, 2020, and January 31, 2021. Existing law repeals the act on February 1, 2025.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact the Tenant, Small Landlord, and Affordable Housing Provider Stabilization Act of 2021 to address the long-term financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on renters, small landlords, and affordable housing providers, ensure ongoing housing stability for tenants at risk of eviction, and stabilize rental properties at risk of foreclosure. This bill would include legislative findings and declarations in support of the intended legislation.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) On March 4, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Measures necessary to contain the spread of COVID-19 have brought about widespread economic and societal disruption, placing the state in unprecedented circumstances.(b) In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, on August 31, 2020, the Legislature passed and the Governor signed into law Assembly Bill 3088 (Chapter 37 of the Statutes of 2020) which created the Tenant, Homeowner, and Small Landlord Relief and Stabilization Act of 2020 (hereafter the Act). While the Act provided much-needed temporary protections for renters and property owners, the economic repercussions of the pandemic and the necessary public health response on tenants, small landlords, and affordable housing providers may last for years to come, and have disproportionately impacted people and communities of color, exacerbating Californias racial justice challenges.(d) The pandemic, its disproportionate effects, and responses to it have also laid bare and exacerbated structural issues related to the planning, development, and disposition of housing that threaten to impede our states recovery and leave some groups behind.(e) Whereas in response to the COVID-19 emergency, some local governments have dedicated funds to rental assistance and debt relief for tenants and property owners, a coordinated statewide program does not yet exist.(f) In order to ensure a just recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is therefore necessary to invest public funds to stabilize renters, small landlords, and affordable housing providers. Such funds must be accompanied by policies that address the factors displacing tenants from their homes and communities, which create additional risk of exposure, threaten public health, and threaten to delay recovery if not addressed. A failure to do so could threaten the states ability to curb transmission of COVID-19 while also creating long-term consequences for the financial stability of all parties.(g) It is, therefore, the intent of the Legislature and the State of California to establish through statute a framework for distributing financial support to ensure long-term stability for renters, small landlords, and affordable housing providers, protect tenants from displacement during the ongoing public health crisis, and ensure an equitable, broadly shared recovery.SEC. 2. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Tenant, Small Landlord, and Affordable Housing Provider Stabilization Act of 2021.SEC. 3. It is the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this measure and enact the Tenant, Small Landlord, and Affordable Housing Provider Stabilization Act of 2021 to address the long-term financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on renters, small landlords, and affordable housing providers, ensure ongoing housing stability for tenants at risk of eviction, and stabilize rental properties at risk of foreclosure.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 16Introduced by Assembly Member ChiuDecember 07, 2020 An act relating to tenancies. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 16, as introduced, Chiu. Tenancies: Tenant, Small Landlord, and Affordable Housing Provider Stabilization Act of 2021.Existing law, the COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act of 2020, establishes certain procedural requirements and limitations on evictions for nonpayment of rent due to COVID-19 rental debt, as defined. The act prohibits a tenant that delivers a declaration of COVID-19-related financial distress from being deemed in default with regard to the COVID-19 rental debt, as specified. Existing law defines COVID-19 rental debt as unpaid rent or any other unpaid financial obligation of a tenant that came due between March 1, 2020, and January 31, 2021. Existing law repeals the act on February 1, 2025.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact the Tenant, Small Landlord, and Affordable Housing Provider Stabilization Act of 2021 to address the long-term financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on renters, small landlords, and affordable housing providers, ensure ongoing housing stability for tenants at risk of eviction, and stabilize rental properties at risk of foreclosure. This bill would include legislative findings and declarations in support of the intended legislation.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 16
Introduced by Assembly Member ChiuDecember 07, 2020
Introduced by Assembly Member Chiu
December 07, 2020
An act relating to tenancies.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 16, as introduced, Chiu. Tenancies: Tenant, Small Landlord, and Affordable Housing Provider Stabilization Act of 2021.
Existing law, the COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act of 2020, establishes certain procedural requirements and limitations on evictions for nonpayment of rent due to COVID-19 rental debt, as defined. The act prohibits a tenant that delivers a declaration of COVID-19-related financial distress from being deemed in default with regard to the COVID-19 rental debt, as specified. Existing law defines COVID-19 rental debt as unpaid rent or any other unpaid financial obligation of a tenant that came due between March 1, 2020, and January 31, 2021. Existing law repeals the act on February 1, 2025.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact the Tenant, Small Landlord, and Affordable Housing Provider Stabilization Act of 2021 to address the long-term financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on renters, small landlords, and affordable housing providers, ensure ongoing housing stability for tenants at risk of eviction, and stabilize rental properties at risk of foreclosure. This bill would include legislative findings and declarations in support of the intended legislation.
Existing law, the COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act of 2020, establishes certain procedural requirements and limitations on evictions for nonpayment of rent due to COVID-19 rental debt, as defined. The act prohibits a tenant that delivers a declaration of COVID-19-related financial distress from being deemed in default with regard to the COVID-19 rental debt, as specified. Existing law defines COVID-19 rental debt as unpaid rent or any other unpaid financial obligation of a tenant that came due between March 1, 2020, and January 31, 2021. Existing law repeals the act on February 1, 2025.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact the Tenant, Small Landlord, and Affordable Housing Provider Stabilization Act of 2021 to address the long-term financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on renters, small landlords, and affordable housing providers, ensure ongoing housing stability for tenants at risk of eviction, and stabilize rental properties at risk of foreclosure. This bill would include legislative findings and declarations in support of the intended legislation.
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## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) On March 4, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Measures necessary to contain the spread of COVID-19 have brought about widespread economic and societal disruption, placing the state in unprecedented circumstances.(b) In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, on August 31, 2020, the Legislature passed and the Governor signed into law Assembly Bill 3088 (Chapter 37 of the Statutes of 2020) which created the Tenant, Homeowner, and Small Landlord Relief and Stabilization Act of 2020 (hereafter the Act). While the Act provided much-needed temporary protections for renters and property owners, the economic repercussions of the pandemic and the necessary public health response on tenants, small landlords, and affordable housing providers may last for years to come, and have disproportionately impacted people and communities of color, exacerbating Californias racial justice challenges.(d) The pandemic, its disproportionate effects, and responses to it have also laid bare and exacerbated structural issues related to the planning, development, and disposition of housing that threaten to impede our states recovery and leave some groups behind.(e) Whereas in response to the COVID-19 emergency, some local governments have dedicated funds to rental assistance and debt relief for tenants and property owners, a coordinated statewide program does not yet exist.(f) In order to ensure a just recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is therefore necessary to invest public funds to stabilize renters, small landlords, and affordable housing providers. Such funds must be accompanied by policies that address the factors displacing tenants from their homes and communities, which create additional risk of exposure, threaten public health, and threaten to delay recovery if not addressed. A failure to do so could threaten the states ability to curb transmission of COVID-19 while also creating long-term consequences for the financial stability of all parties.(g) It is, therefore, the intent of the Legislature and the State of California to establish through statute a framework for distributing financial support to ensure long-term stability for renters, small landlords, and affordable housing providers, protect tenants from displacement during the ongoing public health crisis, and ensure an equitable, broadly shared recovery.SEC. 2. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Tenant, Small Landlord, and Affordable Housing Provider Stabilization Act of 2021.SEC. 3. It is the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this measure and enact the Tenant, Small Landlord, and Affordable Housing Provider Stabilization Act of 2021 to address the long-term financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on renters, small landlords, and affordable housing providers, ensure ongoing housing stability for tenants at risk of eviction, and stabilize rental properties at risk of foreclosure.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) On March 4, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Measures necessary to contain the spread of COVID-19 have brought about widespread economic and societal disruption, placing the state in unprecedented circumstances.(b) In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, on August 31, 2020, the Legislature passed and the Governor signed into law Assembly Bill 3088 (Chapter 37 of the Statutes of 2020) which created the Tenant, Homeowner, and Small Landlord Relief and Stabilization Act of 2020 (hereafter the Act). While the Act provided much-needed temporary protections for renters and property owners, the economic repercussions of the pandemic and the necessary public health response on tenants, small landlords, and affordable housing providers may last for years to come, and have disproportionately impacted people and communities of color, exacerbating Californias racial justice challenges.(d) The pandemic, its disproportionate effects, and responses to it have also laid bare and exacerbated structural issues related to the planning, development, and disposition of housing that threaten to impede our states recovery and leave some groups behind.(e) Whereas in response to the COVID-19 emergency, some local governments have dedicated funds to rental assistance and debt relief for tenants and property owners, a coordinated statewide program does not yet exist.(f) In order to ensure a just recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is therefore necessary to invest public funds to stabilize renters, small landlords, and affordable housing providers. Such funds must be accompanied by policies that address the factors displacing tenants from their homes and communities, which create additional risk of exposure, threaten public health, and threaten to delay recovery if not addressed. A failure to do so could threaten the states ability to curb transmission of COVID-19 while also creating long-term consequences for the financial stability of all parties.(g) It is, therefore, the intent of the Legislature and the State of California to establish through statute a framework for distributing financial support to ensure long-term stability for renters, small landlords, and affordable housing providers, protect tenants from displacement during the ongoing public health crisis, and ensure an equitable, broadly shared recovery.
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) On March 4, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Measures necessary to contain the spread of COVID-19 have brought about widespread economic and societal disruption, placing the state in unprecedented circumstances.(b) In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, on August 31, 2020, the Legislature passed and the Governor signed into law Assembly Bill 3088 (Chapter 37 of the Statutes of 2020) which created the Tenant, Homeowner, and Small Landlord Relief and Stabilization Act of 2020 (hereafter the Act). While the Act provided much-needed temporary protections for renters and property owners, the economic repercussions of the pandemic and the necessary public health response on tenants, small landlords, and affordable housing providers may last for years to come, and have disproportionately impacted people and communities of color, exacerbating Californias racial justice challenges.(d) The pandemic, its disproportionate effects, and responses to it have also laid bare and exacerbated structural issues related to the planning, development, and disposition of housing that threaten to impede our states recovery and leave some groups behind.(e) Whereas in response to the COVID-19 emergency, some local governments have dedicated funds to rental assistance and debt relief for tenants and property owners, a coordinated statewide program does not yet exist.(f) In order to ensure a just recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is therefore necessary to invest public funds to stabilize renters, small landlords, and affordable housing providers. Such funds must be accompanied by policies that address the factors displacing tenants from their homes and communities, which create additional risk of exposure, threaten public health, and threaten to delay recovery if not addressed. A failure to do so could threaten the states ability to curb transmission of COVID-19 while also creating long-term consequences for the financial stability of all parties.(g) It is, therefore, the intent of the Legislature and the State of California to establish through statute a framework for distributing financial support to ensure long-term stability for renters, small landlords, and affordable housing providers, protect tenants from displacement during the ongoing public health crisis, and ensure an equitable, broadly shared recovery.
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
### SECTION 1.
(a) On March 4, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Measures necessary to contain the spread of COVID-19 have brought about widespread economic and societal disruption, placing the state in unprecedented circumstances.
(b) In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, on August 31, 2020, the Legislature passed and the Governor signed into law Assembly Bill 3088 (Chapter 37 of the Statutes of 2020) which created the Tenant, Homeowner, and Small Landlord Relief and Stabilization Act of 2020 (hereafter the Act). While the Act provided much-needed temporary protections for renters and property owners, the economic repercussions of the pandemic and the necessary public health response on tenants, small landlords, and affordable housing providers may last for years to come, and have disproportionately impacted people and communities of color, exacerbating Californias racial justice challenges.
(d) The pandemic, its disproportionate effects, and responses to it have also laid bare and exacerbated structural issues related to the planning, development, and disposition of housing that threaten to impede our states recovery and leave some groups behind.
(e) Whereas in response to the COVID-19 emergency, some local governments have dedicated funds to rental assistance and debt relief for tenants and property owners, a coordinated statewide program does not yet exist.
(f) In order to ensure a just recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is therefore necessary to invest public funds to stabilize renters, small landlords, and affordable housing providers. Such funds must be accompanied by policies that address the factors displacing tenants from their homes and communities, which create additional risk of exposure, threaten public health, and threaten to delay recovery if not addressed. A failure to do so could threaten the states ability to curb transmission of COVID-19 while also creating long-term consequences for the financial stability of all parties.
(g) It is, therefore, the intent of the Legislature and the State of California to establish through statute a framework for distributing financial support to ensure long-term stability for renters, small landlords, and affordable housing providers, protect tenants from displacement during the ongoing public health crisis, and ensure an equitable, broadly shared recovery.
SEC. 2. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Tenant, Small Landlord, and Affordable Housing Provider Stabilization Act of 2021.
SEC. 2. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Tenant, Small Landlord, and Affordable Housing Provider Stabilization Act of 2021.
SEC. 2. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Tenant, Small Landlord, and Affordable Housing Provider Stabilization Act of 2021.
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SEC. 3. It is the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this measure and enact the Tenant, Small Landlord, and Affordable Housing Provider Stabilization Act of 2021 to address the long-term financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on renters, small landlords, and affordable housing providers, ensure ongoing housing stability for tenants at risk of eviction, and stabilize rental properties at risk of foreclosure.
SEC. 3. It is the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this measure and enact the Tenant, Small Landlord, and Affordable Housing Provider Stabilization Act of 2021 to address the long-term financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on renters, small landlords, and affordable housing providers, ensure ongoing housing stability for tenants at risk of eviction, and stabilize rental properties at risk of foreclosure.
SEC. 3. It is the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this measure and enact the Tenant, Small Landlord, and Affordable Housing Provider Stabilization Act of 2021 to address the long-term financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on renters, small landlords, and affordable housing providers, ensure ongoing housing stability for tenants at risk of eviction, and stabilize rental properties at risk of foreclosure.
### SEC. 3.