Beverly Hills Maintains Emergency Restrictions on Evictions and Rent Increases
At the February 7th Beverly Hills City Council meeting, the Council adopted an urgency ordinance, upholding the City’s local eviction moratorium and rent increase freeze, and allowing for a maximum rent increase of up to 3.10% during the period of June 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023 regardless of when the City ends its local emergency. Additionally, effective June 1, 2022, the one-year deferred rent repayment period will commence, and the City’s renters will be required to repay any past due, COVID-19 related rent in full by May 31, 2023.
Prior to the meeting, the Association submitted a letter to the City Council expressing strong opposition to the adoption of the urgency ordinance which allows for the continued usage of the COVID emergency to justify unneeded restrictions and that unnecessarily adversely impact the City’s housing providers. For the past nearly 3 years our members have been forced to endure substantial losses due to government-imposed mandates targeted only at rental housing providers. No other essential service provider was expected to reduce or eliminate their fees during the COVID-19 pandemic. The City of Beverly Hills continues to prevent small, mom-and-pop rental housing providers from even beginning the long recovery process by maintaining the non-standard process where rent increase are limited to 3.10% through June 30, 2023 and only available to those that did not otherwise institute such an increase all the way back to July 1, 2019.
The urgency ordinance was adopted unanimously by the Council.
The Association will continue to closely monitor this matter, provide updates and strongly advocate for our members’ interests.