Thousands of Californians Face Eviction as Moratorium Nears Expiration

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🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

California’s eviction moratorium expires on Sept. 30. Renters can still apply for state assistance and receive limited protections through March of next year, but tenants and advocates say the protections offer a patchwork solution and that the rental relief program rollout has been slow and tedious. In fact, only about 18 percent of renters who applied for state rental relief have received money. Meanwhile, more than 750,000 households in California are behind on rent owing an estimated $2.8 billion, according to the National Equity Atlas, a database focused on racial and economic equity. We’ll hear from tenants who have struggled to pay rent during the pandemic and how they are coping with limited state assistance and possible eviction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.1	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim. Coming up on forum, California's eviction moratorium
0:49.7	expires on September 30th. And while previous expiration dates were extended,
0:55.0	Assembly Housing Chair David Chu told CalMatters,
0:58.0	the will to extend again among his colleagues isn't there.
1:02.0	The question now is whether we'll see a long-feared wave of evictions.
1:06.0	Tenants and housing advocates say rent relief programs could keep many housed after the eviction
1:11.8	moratorium ends depending on the timing of those payments. But federal rental assistance
1:17.4	has been slow to make it through state and local bureaucracies. We look at whether things
1:22.4	have improved in time. Join us.
1:32.8	This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim.
1:39.1	Renders and housing advocates in California say it's been hard to access rent relief since the state's program launched in March, even though more than $5 billion in federal money is
1:43.9	available and the state
1:45.3	pledged in June to pay 100% of rental debt owed, the payments have been coming out at a snail's pace.
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