San Gabriel City Council to Hold an Emergency Meeting at 7:00 AM

San Gabriel City Hall (Photo – sangabrielcity.com)

At the Nov. 19, 2019 San Gabriel City Council meeting, Mayor Jason Pu called for an emergency meeting Thursday morning to vote on a temporary no-fault eviction moratorium that would last until January 1, 2020, when the California Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (AB 1482) goes into effect.

By Sean McNorris

A moratorium would protect San Gabriel tenants from eviction without “just cause,” as outlined in AB 1482 (i.e. failure to pay rent, illegal activity, damage to property, expired lease, etc). A slew of other cities have implemented similar moratoriums over the last month. Cities all over Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, Alhambra, Bell Gardens, Pasadena, South Pasadena, Pomona, Long Beach, Torrance, and from Daly City, Santa Cruz, Milpitas to Redwood City have all passed stop gap eviction moratoriums. The City of Baldwin Park also passed a 180-day freeze on rents and “no-fault” evictions, while the cities of Redondo Beach and Downey are currently working to pass their own temporary ordinances.

Most of the temporary no-fault eviction moratoriums essentially implement AB 1482 early. Many of the temporary moratoriums emulate language similar to Los Angeles’s emergency ordinance­—the first city to implement such a moratorium—which protects all tenants who were evicted without cause and are still on the rental premises and/or challenging the eviction in court.

Emergency meeting

The San Gabriel City Council will vote on a temporary no-fault eviction moratorium at 7:00 am on Thursday, Nov., 21, 2019. Passage of the moratorium as an emergency ordinance, which means it will go into effect immediately, requires that four of the five city councilmembers vote to approve it.