Eureka’s Mayor Clarifies the City’s Eviction Moratorium for COVID Shutdown

This is Eureka Mayor Susan Seaman’s update on the city’s Eviction Moratorium.

Here is what is written in the description box under the video, posted to YouTube:

EVICTION MORATORIUM Hello. I’m Mayor Susan Seaman. As I watch my colleagues placing the highest level of concern on supporting our citizens, community, and our local economy through their every action during this challenging time, there are a couple of topics that warrant some additional explanation. Today, I want to take a moment to discuss the City’s new eviction moratorium and how it may affect you. On March 27th, Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order banning the enforcement of eviction orders for renters affected by COVID 19 through May 31st. This moratorium is designed to keep people in their houses if they have suffered from unexpected income loss that would leave them vulnerable to eviction, and stops evictions that are due to non-payment of rent. To protect public health and prevent the transmission of COVID-19, it is essential to avoid unnecessary displacement and homelessness. On Monday, the Eureka City Council passed the eviction moratorium ordinance, which went into effect immediately, and will remain in effect through May 31. The City will also have the ability to extend the effective period of this moratorium as needed and will continue to monitor the situation locally. Right now, and for the duration of the moratorium, landlords cannot evict tenants for nonpayment of rent, or for a no-fault eviction. However, in order to qualify for delayed payments, tenants must notify their landlord, in writing, of lost income and their inability to pay the full rent. They must also provide documentation to support their claim. Claims can be supported with documentation that demonstrates lost household income due to: • Being sick, or caring for someone that has fallen ill with COVID-19; • Layoff, loss of hours or business resulting from the COVID-19 or state of emergency; • Compliance with a government recommendation to stay at home or self-quarantine during the state of emergency, • Caring for minor children affected by school or childcare closures; • Discontinuance or reduction of a government aid program. It is important to note that tenants are still required to pay lawfully charged rent and will have 180 days following the ordinance expiration to repay any delayed payments. Tenants and landlords can work together to arrange a payment schedule. This is a deferment of payment. If you are participating by postponing rent payments, I would encourage you to find a way to save partial payments when possible. You can set it aside in a savings account, or work out a partial payment plan with your landlord if they are willing. This will help alleviate having the burden of the whole cost at the end of the crisis. The ordinance also suspends shut off of water service for residents and businesses due to non-payment; late penalties for delinquent water and/or sewer bills; and increases in rent. I invite you to review the full ordinance and additional COVID-19 updates on our website, ci.eureka.ca.gov. I’ll continue to share updates about how the City is supporting our citizens, community, and local economy as more information becomes available. In the meantime, be safe, stay healthy, and take good care of yourself. We’ll talk again soon.

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hmm
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hmm
3 years ago

How would you document “loss of hours or business resulting from the COVID-19 or state of emergency” if you are self-employed?

If all current and back rent will be due 180 days following the expiration of the ordinance, how is this helpful? What will stop a flood of evictions at that time?

Why is there still no actual, legally ordered, help for those with mortgages?

HUGO FUGUSELV
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HUGO FUGUSELV
3 years ago

What EXACT documents will be accepted as proof of wages lost? There is a statewide lockdown and nobody can work you criminals! The economy has been killed from above, but people on the bottom are expected to pay while corporations are being handed trillions. And still, individual tax paying wage slave month to month tenants are expected to pay or get out before summer? The person or people who wrote that legal document have zero perception of what is about to happen. They are the problem we face. People will not be able to make up for months of unwilling unplanned insolvency. We are about to see MASS insolvency and MASS public reaction. Who is supposed to do the physical evictions of thousands of families a day in every city and town in America? Three people came back into Humboldt from abroad this week with ZERO screening at any airport in the US. They were screened and individually tested abroad though. This is a planned event that is being openly allowed to get worse. That no test story is ABSOLUTE PROOF. WE ON THE BOTTOM WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS CONTINUED U.S. MISHANDLING OF THIS ABSOLUTELY PRE PLANNED FOR GLOBAL PANDEMIC. (EVENT 201)

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tax payer
3 years ago
Reply to  HUGO FUGUSELV

this is not true. people can work. in fact if you have a restaurant you are encouraged to keep it open and take the federally secured loan that will turn into a grant and keep your workers working. the loans pay for your employee wages and healthcare if you offer it and rent on the building and so on

Anon
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Anon
3 years ago

I wonder if anyone at the city even bothered to check to see if there had been a rash of evictions for people affected by the virus and/or its effects? I haven’t heard of a single person being evicted who couldn’t pay their rent due to a COVID layoff or illness. I also can’t imagine a landlord wanting a vacant apartment right now. I wonder if the City Council has wasted a bunch of time and resources solving a nonexistent problem.