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The City of Santa Clarita was named the defendant, along with several other cities in Los Angeles County, in a lawsuit filed Friday for lost income due to a COVID-19 eviction moratorium.
The landlords listed as plaintiffs in the suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court include Casa Green Inc., Westside Habitats LLC, Brass Key Properties LLC, VSN Properties LLC, Hollywood Lofts LLC, Streamline Properties LLC, Terraces at the Grove Inc. and Silver Swan Properties LLC.
Only one of the plaintiffs, Westside Habitats, has properties listed in Santa Clarita, with six apartment complexes in Newhall.
In addition to Santa Clarita, the lawsuit includes Los Angeles County, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Glendale, Burbank, Agoura Hills and the City of Los Angeles, according to court documents.
The plaintiffs are seeking damages “far in excess of $300,000,” according to the suit.
“While purportedly intending to provide relief to tenants … the ordinances and other enactments are illegal, imbalanced and significantly infringe on their constitutional rights,” the lawsuit said. “Undoubtedly, a significant percentage of the tenants who have not been paying rent will not pay back the arrearages.”
The lawsuit further argues there has been no moratorium for landlords, who still have to pay the monthly mortgage for the property.
A City of Santa Clarita spokesperson declined to comment, citing ongoing litigation.
In March, the Santa Clarita City Council adopted an urgency ordinance, temporarily prohibiting evictions of residential, commercial and manufactured home tenants arising from financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Then in May, the Santa Clarita City Council voted to extend the eviction moratorium and rent payback period to June 30.
“People are going to start recovering and start paying their rents in the short term,” said City Councilwoman Marsha McLean. “I would hate to see a family evicted because they could have paid their rent back over a little longer time.”
On Aug, 31, the City’s eviction moratorium expired and residents of Santa Clarita are subject to Los Angeles County’s temporary eviction moratorium.
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If you were a Deadbeat tenant BEFORE the Chinese Flu Hysteria, then you’ll still be a Deadbeat after as well.
If there is no relief for property owners then shouldn’t be for renters either.
Stop talking steve. Nobody asked.
Another Covidiot exposed as a racist, your family must be so proud.
Covid assistance should be given to everyone who has been financially impacted: Tenants and Landlords! But there should be a qualification process just like there is for welfare/snap benifits. I’m sure there are people claiming hardship just because they can.
Maybe they should get a real job instead of relying on other ppls money
You do realize LA County has an unemployment rate of 17.5% one of the highest rates in the nation and CA has an unemployment rate of 13.3%. Prior to the Corona virus pandemic CA’s unemployment rate was 3.9% so this is what a lack of leadership and moral/ethical cowardice has wrought by the Trump Administration. By the way, the majority of the unemployed are not relying on other people’s money; they worked and paid into the system and now need these funds to survive. They are victims of this pandemic too as a result of Trump’s failure to take action, your lack of understanding of the situation and compassion reveal you are as ignorant as you are wrong.
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Alice or “Alice in Wonder Land”. All of you crybaby Trump haters are the same. Blame Trump for everything. Next you will blame Trump for Biden’s memory loss. On a side note, the employers pay into the (SUI) system for the employees.
Ray, you support an openly avowed racist, sexist, bigot, xenophobic misogynist incapable of telling the truth and responsible for the untimely and unnecessary death of over 200,000 fellow AMERICANS. Your one falsely stated criticism of Biden is a memory loss, meanwhile Trumps advises people to inject bleach, take a proven dangerous and ineffective drug of hydroxychloroquine, refuses to wear a mask, holds indoor rallies in the midst of a pandemic, stokes racial division at every opportunity, disparages and insults our military, our international alliances and refuses to acknowledge/support scientific and medical fact based data all the while promoting herd immunity which would result the unnecessary deaths of 3 MILLION Americans.
But he sure loves himself some Russian interference in our democracy and can’t get enough of Putin. So sure, praise Putin’s useful idiot all you want meanwhile those of us with the ability to think freely for ourselves and understand the gravity of the world in which we live will do the right thing and end our nation’s nightmare and VOTE.
Every single word you have written is false. Stop repeating the false democrat narrative. The CNN brainwashing is clear in your case. You are what the Russians call a “useful idiot”. You believe everything you hear and see, only if it comes from the left.
You people, both Democrats and Republicans haven’t you realized the political theater that they are putting on? Trump – Biden or Republican – Democrat differences are fake , like WWE wrestling matches are scripted fake shows. All these politicians, work together, socialized together, and are on the payroll of the same big interests, and in fact all American Presidents, including Obama are related to each other and to British Royalty.
Alice- I find your statements ironic given that the response to the virus has been primarily driven by the state governments. The federal government only assists with funds and guidance.
If anyone is to blame for our situation in California it is our Governor. He has chosen to make it impossible to open, closed down our businesses when other states have opened, provided relief for renters but not landlords, and has been a one man wrecking crew for jobs in general (but not is Napa Valley winery, ironically). You are also wrong with regards to unemployment insurance. That is a state funded, not federally funded insurance so you cant blame the federal government there either unless you want to blame the democrats for not coming to the table for a second funding bill to fund small business and provide additional relief.
While I agree that most of those unemployed are victims of the situation, you are wrong regarding who is at fault in California. The left pleads for protecting every person and one loss of life is too much so they lock down the economy then blames the Trump administration for the lack of jobs. If this isnt a political ploy, I dont know what is. They cant have it both ways.
This is no different than the fire situation. You cant blame something global warming for the fires when there is a lack of causality (CA always has a fire season and there is zero evidence that our fire issue is a direct result of climate change). What is different now is that our environmental laws and activists have limited the federal governments ability to maintain the forests in an effective way which has directly lead to the horror we see now. Its the typical deflection the democrats do when they know they are at fault but dont want to make change because it will upset their voter base.
That’s true is our money not others people money. We paid everytime for these insurance in every check that we get. Is our right to use that insurance when we need it
And yet the three largest Federal deficits 20th/21st Centuries have been by 3 Republican Presidents: Reagan, Bush and Trump, so you are WRONG and STUPID. And the first Federal Budget Surplus in decades was a result of Democrat Clinton. When Democrat Obama assumed office he inherited Republican George Bush’s Federal deficit of 1.4 TRILLION and the worst recession in almost one hundred years. It was Obama’s economic recovery plan that saved this nation from the brink of disaster and reduced the Federal deficit from (Bush’s) 1.4 TRILLION to 585 billion.
BTW, under Republican Trump the Federal deficit for 2020 as of April is 3.7 TRILLION, so much for fiscal responsibility under the Republican watch. So keep spreading the bullshit and drinking the Kool-aid because the only one you are fooling is yourself.
Come on Alice, read Marco’s post. It wasnt about deficits, it was about the success tax that Democrats always use as the method to “save the country”. Sorry, you cant tax people into prosperity.
Meanwhile you support Trump who trounces on our Constitution, attempts to dismantle the USPS, disenfranchises thousands of qualified voters, uses the DOJ and his spineless bootlicker Barr to dismantle the once nonpartisan and competent agency, pressures the CDC to spread disinformation during the pandemic, opts out of the WHO during a pandemic, lies about the availability and efficacy of vaccine that is non-existent, deploys military overkill on peaceful protesters for photo opportunity, and is compromised by the Russians via Manafort, Giuliani, and Parmas. He is a racist, birther, white nationalist con man and you are a fool to believe anything he utters. He is incapable of telling the truth, lies and cheats; ask any of his 3 wives and multiple porn star mistresses he’s had, he has been and will continue to be the WORST PRESIDENT EVER. History will judge him accurately and fairly and all his brain dead enablers like you are on the wrong side of history. Your children must be so proud of you, NOT.
Marco, you are so true about it. Alice has no idea. Sounds like he was molested as a child, alter boy or even a boy scout
Ray,
Anyone using child molestation as a joke is disgusting and shameless. What’s next for you, pedophilia or rape? You revealed yourself and your true character, congratulations, you’ve reached a new low even for this forum. Sounds to me you were speaking about your own past personal experience, so please seek help, you need it. You weak, petty, small PATHETIC. man.
Marco FLATULENCE, your name is so apt.
The little fish gets eaten by a larger fish who in turn is eaten by the largest fish. True, but so what?
Renters who are financially impacted due to the coronavirus are the small fish. The landlords are the larger ones whose fate is determined by the largest fish, the BANKS. In a responsibly run country the banks would ease up during a time of extreme crisis or be forced to do so for the public good. They are the ones that must help even if it means a tiny bit less profit for their shareholders. Unrestrained capitalism is the root problem.
Call me crazy but with all the impact Covid has had the government should have stepped in and said until there is a vaccine or herd immunity renters don’t have to pay rent, home/building owners don’t have to pay their mortgage. Make it blanket rule, job or no job, hit the pause button, save money or pump it back into the economy and resume all payments with no interest or penalties once this thing is under control.
Instead it takes months for our “leaders” to figure out if people out of work are entitled to a measly $600 bucks… Give me a break, the whole system is screwed up. It’s not a democrat or republican thing, nothing makes sense anymore. You die hard republican and democrats on this message board all sound like lunatics.
I can agree with that Marco. Keep calm and carry on.
It is all the game for elections. They on purpose turned tenants and landlords against each other to make it an election issue to secure votes of tenants. Obviously, landlords are minority. They do not need their 5 votes. They very cleverly shifted their responsibility to house people on the landlords. Let’s see how long they can get away with this.
Hey folks. Guess what? A health pandemic is going on. Millions globally are getting sick and dying. The countries that have been successful getting it under control had lockdowns and required mask wearing. The populace COMPLIED. This did not happen in America. Is it the government fault for not taking it seriously and making sure all states complied? Now ask yourselves why the people of America think they don’t have to. Is this a party issue? Really? The sooner everyone takes this seriously, the sooner businesses can get back up and running. Blame whoever you want but think about the real reasons why America is having the most per capita cases and deaths. Be smart. Stop arguing and blaming. And do what is necessary to control the SPREAD of an unpredictable unplanned monster virus. Bottom line, it is up to YOU!