File #: File ID 13504    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Agenda Item Status: No Action
File created: 9/1/2021 In control: Board of Supervisors
On agenda: 9/21/2021 Final action: 9/21/2021
Title: UNFINISHED BUSINESS (9/7/21) Eviction Prevention Landlord Incentive Program Discussion/Action. Directing the County Administrator and County staff to design and roll out, by the first week of October, 2021, an incentive program for landlords who have the legal right under state statute to evict their tenant(s) for non-payment of rent, to voluntarily hold off from proceeding with the eviction process in return for an "Eviction Prevention Landlord Incentive Program" payment from the County, for back-rent owed up to $5,000 per unit in total. Further directing the County Administrator and County staff to immediately fund the initial phase of this "Eviction Prevention Landlord Incentive Program" with up to $3.0 Million from the County's American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Contingency Funds, under the Treasury's expenditure category of "Responding to the Negative Economic Impacts of COVID-19." (District 2)
Attachments: 1. BOS_EvictionPreventionLandlordIncentiveProgram_Dist2Submittal, 2. BOS_EvictionPrevention_CommentLetter_9-2-21_Redacted, 3. BOS_CAMemo_EmergencyRentalEvictionUpdates_9-16-21, 4. BOS_EvictionPrevention_CommentLetters_9-20-21_Redacted

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UNFINISHED BUSINESS (9/7/21)

Eviction Prevention Landlord Incentive Program

Discussion/Action. Directing the County Administrator and County staff to design and roll out, by the first week of October, 2021, an incentive program for landlords who have the legal right under state statute to evict their tenant(s) for non-payment of rent, to voluntarily hold off from proceeding with the eviction process in return for an “Eviction Prevention Landlord Incentive Program” payment from the County, for back-rent owed up to $5,000 per unit in total. Further directing the County Administrator and County staff to immediately fund the initial phase of this “Eviction Prevention Landlord Incentive Program” with up to $3.0 Million from the County’s American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Contingency Funds, under the Treasury’s expenditure category of “Responding to the Negative Economic Impacts of COVID-19.” (District 2)