Corte Madera has grow to be the most recent Marin jurisdiction to approve a brief eviction moratorium in response to statewide COVID-19 protections expiring.
The City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve the urgency ordinance, which prohibits residential evictions with out trigger by way of Sept. 30.
“This merchandise we're taking in live performance with Marin County and different jurisdictions to assist forestall additional homelessness resulting from COVID,” stated Amy Ackerman, the city legal professional.
The state’s eviction moratorium for tenants who utilized for rental help previous to March 31 expired on June 30. The urgency ordinance acts as an area extension of that moratorium.
“We need to be certain that any candidates who had utilized for the funds however haven't but had their purposes authorised are prevented from eviction,” Ackerman stated.
Related extensions have been authorised for unincorporated Marin, Fairfax, Larkspur, San Rafael and Novato.
The extensions had been adopted as a result of the county authorities has skilled delays in distributing tens of millions of dollars in rental help funding. The county, which manages the rental help program, has but to dispense practically $8.6 million of the $36.4 million it obtained from the state and federal governments.
The delays are a results of eligibility verification and residents submitting a number of purposes after failing to listen to responses, based on the county.
The funds can solely be utilized by those that misplaced earnings as a direct results of the pandemic. The funding can solely cowl overdue lease and utility payments from April 2020 by way of March 2022.
Corte Madera resident David Macpherson, a lawyer, requested whether or not the city legal professional has recognized any Corte Madera tenants who've utilized for funds and are nonetheless awaiting distribution.
“I say that as a result of for a few of my work on behalf of landlords, it seems to me that a lot of the funds for Marin County have been distributed, and anybody who well timed requested rental help … has already obtained these funds,” he stated.
Ackerman stated, “I may say that this request got here from the county as a result of the county workplace was nonetheless within the strategy of distributing the funding. So so far as the county is worried, there may be nonetheless some excellent funding that hasn’t been processed they usually anticipate finishing that by the top of September.”