New Resource Provides Model for Local Tenant Protection Ordinances
Cities and counties across the United States face two related crises: COVID-19 and the looming threat of rising evictions as the economic fallout from the pandemic exacerbates long-standing affordable housing challenges.
States and the federal government have taken some important steps to forestall evictions and provide other tenant protections, including a national eviction moratorium issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that is slated to be in place through the end of the year. However, given the limitations and expiration of many state efforts, coupled with the looming end of federal protections, local governments will increasingly be looking to provide tenant protections of their own to forestall homelessness and dislocation with potentially grave individual, economic, and public health consequences.
This model tenant protection ordinance (click here to download the editable document) provides essential terms that local governments should consider adopting to respond in their communities.
