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Law Brief®: Robert Wolf, Alexander Tiktin and Richard Schoenstein Discuss the Continuing Foreclosure/Eviction Moratorium
On Monday, April 3, 2023, the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office issued a notice extending certain residential renter protections related to the COVID-19 pandemic that were slated to end upon the expiration of the LA County Eviction...more
A countywide eviction moratorium is also extended until March 31, 2023. The Los Angeles City Council recently passed a package of ordinances aimed at providing residential tenants in Los Angeles (the City) with permanent...more
Host Rachel Maimin is joined Kimberly Skadan, Civil Practice Supervising Attorney Trainer at The Legal Aid Society, to discuss current issues in housing law, including whether regulations skew more favorably towards the...more
LOCKOUTS- Can I be locked out of my home for failing to pay rent during the COVID-19 pandemic? Maybe. Whether you can qualify for protection from eviction depends on your household income and your completion of a sworn...more
IMPEDIMENTO DE ACCESO- ¿Pueden impedirme el acceso a mi domicilio durante la emergencia sanitaria por la COVID-19? Puede suceder. La posibilidad de calificar para la protección contra el desalojo depende de los...more
LOCKOUTS- Can I be locked out of my home during the ongoing COVID-19 emergency? Maybe. Whether you can qualify for protection from eviction depends on your household income and your completion of a sworn certification...more
During a special session held on September 1, 2021, the New York State legislature passed a new law that extends the state’s moratorium on residential and commercial evictions and foreclosures until January 15, 2022. The...more
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) exceeded its authority when it imposed a national eviction moratorium. More precisely, in Alabama Association of Realtors v....more
A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Aug. 25, 2021, upheld the City of Los Angeles' current residential eviction moratorium – first enacted by the City Council in 2020 as an emergency...more
On August 26, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Alabama Ass’n of Realtors v. Department of Health and Human Services, holding that it strains credulity to read the statute on which the federal Centers for Disease Control...more
The United States Supreme Court nullified a nationwide residential eviction moratorium that has been in place for nearly a year. Alabama Association of Realtors v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 594 U.S. ----...more
Supreme Court Strikes Down Extension of CDC Moratorium on Evictions - The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a ruling that blocks the extension of the moratorium on evictions ordered by the Centers for Disease Control and...more
Early in the pandemic, there was a patchwork of federal, state, and local eviction moratoriums, so not all rental housing was covered by a moratorium. On September 4, 2020, the CDC issued an order declaring a national...more
On August 26, 2021, the Supreme Court issued a per curiam opinion blocking the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) August 3, 2021 order (“New Order”), a last-ditch effort by the Biden administration to...more
COVID-19 has had an enormous impact on businesses of all kinds. But organizations in the real estate sector—both commercial and residential—have been hit particularly hard. The fallout from the pandemic has sparked numerous...more
The CDC Eviction Moratorium On August 3, 2021, the CDC issued an order (Order) extending the Moratorium through October 31, 2021. Even though the Moratorium doesn't state a goal of reducing economic hardship, the Order...more
Temporary Residential Eviction Process Changes - Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and Nevada’s Governor have used a series of agency orders and emergency directives to halt residential...more
CIERRES PATRONALES- ¿Puedo ser excluido de mi casa durante la emergencia COVID-19? No. Dos órdenes gubernamentales diferentes impiden los cierres patronales en este momento.- La Orden del Estado El 19 de marzo de...more
NOTE: On May 19, Governor Brown signed SB 282 into law. As the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out continues and summer approaches, there is optimism that life may slowly be returning to normal—or at least a new type of normal....more
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On Tuesday May 4, 2021, Governor Cuomo signed an extension of the “COVID-19 Emergency Protect Our Small Businesses Act of 2021” (collectively, the “Act”) prohibiting residential and commercial evictions, foreclosure...more
On Wednesday, May 5, 2021, Judge Friedrich of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, entered an Order vacating the CDC’s nationwide eviction moratorium order. In a related opinion, Judge Friedrich...more
A national “eviction moratorium” issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on September 4, 2020, initially was set to expire December 31, 2020, and subsequently was extended through January 31, 2021, and...more
Since we last reported on this topic, many of the residential and commercial eviction moratoriums that were enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have been amended, replaced and/or extended. These moratoriums are...more