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City of San Leandro City Council Meeting Date: February 14, 2023 Agenda Number: 4.a. Agenda Section: ACTION ITEMS File Number: 23-048 File Type: Staff Report Adopt an Ordinance to Extend the City’s Residential Eviction Moratorium to February 28, 2024 COUNCIL PRIORITY ·Housing and Homelessness ·Race and Equity Initiatives SUMMARY Staff presents for the City Council’s consideration an Ordinance to Extend the City’s Residential Eviction Moratorium to February 28, 2024 (Attachment A) BACKGROUND In response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Governor of California proclaimed a state of emergency throughout California on March 4, 2020. Thereafter, the San Leandro Director of Emergency Services proclaimed a local emergency which was ratified by the City Council on March 16, 2020. Soon, health officers in the Bay Area (and later throughout California) issued orders directing residents to shelter at home and limit activity, travel, and business to only the most essential needs. These health orders caused businesses of all types to cease, or substantially reduce operations. This caused many employees to lose jobs or have their hours reduced. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and shelter-in-place orders requiring most people to stay at home, the San Leandro City Council adopted Ordinance No. 2020-003, as an urgency ordinance, to enact a residential and commercial eviction moratorium (the commercial eviction moratorium terminated in September 2021). Ordinance No. 2020-003 was a temporary measure intended to promote stability and fairness within the residential and commercial rental market in the City during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, and to prevent avoidable homelessness and evictions thereby preserving the peace, health, safety, and public welfare and to enable tenants in the City whose incomes and ability to work were affected by COVID-19 to remain in their homes and businesses. Ordinance No. 2020-003 provided that the eviction moratorium would terminate on the later of: 1) May 31, 2020, 2) the expiration of the local emergency, or 3) the Governor's proclamation of a state of emergency. The Governor’s proclamation of a state of emergency is set to expire on February 28, 2023. Likewise, the City Council intends to terminate the local emergency concurrently with the expiration of the Governor’s proclamation of a state of emergency. Accordingly, the City’s eviction moratorium will terminate on February 28, 2023. A key provision in Ordinance No. 2020-003 provides that upon the expiration of the eviction moratorium, tenants and mobile homeowners have a maximum of 180 days to repay rent that accumulated during the Page 1 City of San Leandro Printed on 2/10/2023