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Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed two new bills that aim to boost housing supply and further address the state’s homelessness crisis....more
Creating certainty in the inherent uncertainty of the future is the name of the game when it comes to drafting commercial leases. When courts overrule provisions that the parties to the lease have agreed upon, however, that...more
The much-discussed push to revive downtown San Francisco by converting empty office buildings to housing is starting to gather momentum. Eight office building owners have responded to the city’s “request for information”...more
A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: San Francisco - Housing Wonks on a Mission to Shorten S.F.’s Permitting Process (Fixing Our City Podcast): Assemblymember Matt Haney and YIMBY...more
Governor Gavin Newsom said he will work this year to reform a landmark state environmental law that he says has been weaponized by wealthy homeowners to block badly-needed housing for students at UC Berkeley....more
The long moratorium on most evictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the de facto shutdown of the court system for civil matters, caused most California landlords to defer unlawful detainer and related...more
The Mercury News – December 6- Just one day after the start of the new legislative session, Senator Scott Wiener announced Senate Bill 4 — the “Affordable Housing on Faith Lands Act.” The bill would remove red tape for...more
Voters in San Francisco and Oakland approved two measures with significant implications for residential property owners: San Francisco’s Proposition M, also known as the Empty Homes Tax, and Oakland’s Measure V, which expands...more
Following the passage of its commercial eviction moratorium for certain qualified tenants in December 2020, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, on August 4, 2021, provided additional assistance to the same class of...more
On July 20, 2021, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an amendment to the San Francisco Commercial Eviction Moratorium Ordinance (Moratorium Amendment) codifying a legal presumption to potentially...more
California Governor Gavin Newsom and the state Legislature enacted a $196 billion spending plan for FY 2021–22, the largest budget in state history. Buoyed by a record budget surplus estimated at $85 billion, including $26…...more
In early April as the statewide vaccination rate began to rise and major population centers across California began to see significant decreases in positive COVID cases and hospitalization rates, Governor Gavin Newsom...more
Buchalter’s February 16 COVID Alert reported that the federal government had extended the FHA, VA and USDA timelines for single-family foreclosure and eviction moratoria and forbearance periods to June 30, 2021. On February...more
On Jan. 29, 2021, Gov. Newsom signed legislation to extend California’s eviction moratorium through June 30, 2021....more
The California Legislature made modest gains on housing production and stimulus bills in 2020, and there are several notable bills that took effect on January 1, 2021. The new laws tackle COVID-19, project permit...more
In an update to our client alert from November 30 regarding the San Francisco commercial eviction moratorium previously passed by the Board of Supervisors, we note that, following our publication of the client alert, the...more
On November 17, 2020, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an extension to the commercial eviction moratorium that had been previously enacted and extended on a month-to-month basis by mayoral...more
Alert October 23, 2020 Due to the economic impacts of COVID-19, many states have issued moratoriums on foreclosures and evictions. Some of those moratoriums have expired. However, even if a lender is now able to obtain a...more
On September 23, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order extending the ability of local jurisdictions to enact their own eviction moratoriums on commercial tenancies from September 30, 2020 to May 31, 2021....more
On Thursday, August 13, the California Judicial Council elected to rescind Emergency Rules 1 and 2 related to eviction and foreclosure actions in California applicable to both residential and commercial properties, effective...more
On August 31, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 3088 (the "Bill"), extending a statewide stoppage of evictions for unpaid rent due to the COVID-19 pandemic and granting protection from foreclosure to...more
There is an interplay between local efforts such as the new City of Los Angeles residential eviction moratorium ordinance (see Part 1 of this Breaking Ground Blog series, "City of L.A.'s New Ordinance Foretells More Trouble...more
On a unanimous vote yesterday, May 6, 2020, the Los Angeles City Council passed an ordinance (“New Ordinance“) amending rules in the Los Angeles Municipal Code that temporarily prohibit the eviction of residential and...more
On April 6, 2020, the California Judicial Council issued emergency amendments to the California Rules of Court regarding evictions under commercial and residential leases and judicial foreclosures....more
On Monday, April 6, 2020, in an Emergency Meeting to address issues arising from the COVID-19 Crisis, the Judicial Council enacted emergency rules that protect tenants and borrowers by temporarily preventing California courts...more