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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11893136" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="san-francisco" source="Orion">San Francisco</keyword> passed a law requiring <keyword id="12594508" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="landlords" source="Orion">landlords</keyword> to bargain with <keyword id="11964179" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="renters" source="Orion">renters</keyword> who want to organize. </li><li>That was after the city's biggest landlord, Veritas, allegedly refused to meet with its tenants. </li></ul>Renters in one of the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nyc-apartments-more-expensive-than-san-francisco-zumper-2021-8">most expensive housing markets</a> in the United States just scored a big win: the right to organize, and the right to be heard by their landlords. Last week, San Francisco's new <a href="https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5191199&amp;GUID=F81B312D-FBF7-4122-BE1C-0313544C15C8&amp;Options=ID%7CText%7C&amp;Search=">"Right to Organize" ordinance</a> went into effect, requiring landlords to recognize tenant associations within their properties, attend tenant meetings at least four times per year, and bargain with tenant unions "in good faith." If landlords fail to comply with the ordinance, <keyword id="11948118" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="rent" source="Orion">rent</keyword>ers can apply for a rent reduction as a penalty. The law is the first of its kind in the country. Aaron Peskin, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, drafted the ordinance after overseeing negotiations between Veritas Investments, the largest landlord in San Francisco, and its tenants. The tenants clamored for Veritas, which is also the subject of multiple lawsuits <a href="https://www.sfpublicpress.org/searching-for-truth-in-tenants-lawsuit-against-s-f-corporate-landlord/">alleging</a> tenant harassment, to cancel rent debt accumulated during the pandemic. In a statement to Insider, Veritas denied all claims. "Tenants organized behind what is usually an individual source of shame — debt — and leveraged it as a group to win concessions from Veritas that would not otherwise have been possible," Brad Hirn of the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco <a href="https://capitalandmain.com/a-new-effort-in-san-francisco-aims-to-debate-rent-at-the-bargaining-table">told</a> Capital and Main's Jack Ross.Peskin's office said they want the law to facilitate better communication between landlords and tenants in San Francisco, while across the country, tenants in other cities are suffering from the same problems. The cost of monthly rent reached a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/23/success/us-national-rent-february/index.html">record high</a> in February. The federal <keyword id="11957476" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="eviction-moratorium" source="Orion">eviction moratorium</keyword> — which <a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w28394">saved</a> thousands of lives during the start of the pandemic, according to a Duke University study — <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/eviction-moratorium-ending-what-to-expect-landlords-rents-tenants-2021-7">ended</a> in August, while 7.4 million households were behind on rent."It's a union at home," Lenea Maibaum, a Veritas tenant and an organizer of the Veritas Tenants' Association, told Capital and Main. "We're all workers who can unionize at work. Now we can unionize at work and at home."<h2>Inching toward a seat at the bargaining table </h2>106 Veritas renters sued the landlord for tenant harassment in 2019, alleging that the firm harassed rent-stabilized tenants by driving buildings into disrepair, ignored asbestos and mold growth in apartments, and invaded tenants' privacy through incessant construction — all claims Veritas denies."We deny the claims, and look forward to disproving them yet again in court," Jeff Jerden, Veritas' Chief Operations Officer, told Insider in a statement.After a five-month long strike last year, the Veritas Tenants' Association <a href="https://twitter.com/AaronPeskin/status/1486904854299643908/photo/1">announced</a> that they had reached an agreement with Veritas to cancel debt for tenants and to waive rent increases for 2022. In a <a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2022/01/31/sfbt-digest-monday.html">statement</a> to The San Francisco Business Times from January, however, Veritas said it has no agreement nor has it been in negotiations with either of the two groups that issued a press release saying they were ending a rent strike. The company said the tenants groups mischaracterized its public <a href="https://www.veritasinvestments.com/news/veritas-investments-one-of-san-franciscos-largest-property-managers-announces-rent-relief-backstop-plan-augmenting-state-u-s-efforts/">statement</a> from December, where it announced a program guaranteeing that, if any of its residents apply for rent relief and see their benefit cut short due to lack of funding by the state, Veritas would cover it for up to 18 months. Jerden said that while the company looks forward to having more channels of communication with tenants, it believes that characterizing the ordinance as pro-union is misleading. "It's unfortunate that we're hearing from some residents about the misleading nature of rhetoric around the program, as people with political objectives have characterized these associations as 'unions,' despite no such language being present in the legislation," Jerden said. "The full sum of the impact of the legislation is that it creates quarterly meeting sessions between the association and a property's owner or manager." Jerden also pointed out that Charley Goss of the San Francisco Apartment Association told <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/reviews/out?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fto-bargain-with-their-landlords-renters-form-tenant-unions-11642860002">the Wall Street Journal</a>, "We're wary that the legislation will bring misconceptions that things are on the table and up for negotiation that aren't."But that hasn't stopped tenants wishing to organize from calling themselves a "union" — which simply describes a group of people coming together for collective political gain. Last week, members sent 15 letters to Veritas, presenting majority approval of tenant associations in 15 buildings asking that Veritas formally acknowledge their union under the new ordinance, according to Capital and Main. "When Veritas was refusing to meet with their tenants, or saying there was no way they were going to meet with tenants if there was an advocate in the room, that's when we cried foul," Peskin's aide, Lee Hepner, told Capital and Main. "And ultimately that did fuel language in the legislation that says you can't refuse to meet with tenants if they bring their own advocates."Editor's note: This story has been updated to include comment from Veritas Investments.

San Francisco renters are unionizing against Big Landlords as frustration over rent prices and alleged harassment reaches a boiling point

The 6 cities and states trying to stop landlords from jacking up rent prices

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="212097" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="AOC">AOC</keyword> is urging Biden to renew an <keyword id="9865732" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="eviction-moratorium">eviction moratorium</keyword> that's ending in eight days.</li><li>"We must protect the vulnerable and do everything in our power to prevent a mass eviction crisis," she said.</li><li>Advocates are pressing for an extension because of rising virus cases and an ineffective stimulus relief program.</li></ul>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex of New York urged President Joe Biden to not allow a federal eviction moratorium to end in eight days, calling it a "reckless" move that would jeopardize the wellbeing of millions of Americans."I urge the Biden Administration to extend the <keyword id="6379474" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="cdc">CDC</keyword>'s eviction moratorium," she wrote on Twitter. "It is reckless not to extend the deadline when rental assistance funds have not gone out fast enough to protect people."She noted new data indicated that many people at risk of eviction live in areas with rising COVID-19 infections."We must protect the vulnerable and do everything in our power to prevent a mass eviction crisis," she said.The Biden administration is poised to allow the eviction moratorium to lapse on July 31 after a final extension late last month. Yet advocates are pressing the White House to renew it past that date because a stimulus program aimed at providing rental relief <a href="https://time.com/6083228/rental-assistance-eviction-moratorium/">has been slow to distribute aid</a>. Only $3 billion in federal assistance has reached renters, or 6.5% of allocated aid.Paul Williams, a fellow at the Jain Family Institute, projected that 80% of all households struggling with rental debt were in counties experiencing a surge of virus cases because of the Delta variant."Letting county courts kick people onto the street next week is probably the worst Delta variant strategy I can think of," <a href="https://twitter.com/PEWilliams_/status/1418597555240423430?s=20">he tweeted</a>.

AOC tells Biden not to be 'reckless' and urges him not to allow the eviction ban to lapse in July, putting 6 million Americans at risk

<ul class="summary-list"><li>South Carolina received $271 million from the US government in April to help <keyword id="11964179" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="renters" source="Orion">renters</keyword>.</li><li>Only a quarter of that money has been given out and the state has the most evictions in the country.</li></ul>Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, tenants had a harder time holding onto their housing in South Carolina than anywhere else in the country, the state seeing <a href="https://evictionlab.org/rankings/#/evictions?r=United%20States&amp;a=0&amp;d=evictionRate&amp;lang=en">seven times</a> more evictions than the national average in 2016.Now, the federal government is <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/07/treasury-sends-rental-aid-526748">reallocating</a> over a billion dollars to states that have spent the Treasury's previous rental aid. That doesn't include South Carolina, because it hasn't spent the vast majority of its original allotment.The need is there, the funding is there, but the execution isn't.Even though the state is sitting on a stockpile of <keyword id="12374293" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="federal-aid" source="Orion">federal aid</keyword>, it's still seeing <a href="https://www.counton2.com/news/local-news/almost-7000-evictions-filed-in-south-carolina-before-the-federal-eviction-moratorium-ends/">thousands</a> of <keyword id="12368679" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="eviction" source="Orion">eviction</keyword> filings in the months since the federal moratorium ended. Housing advocates, tenants, and <keyword id="12594508" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="landlords" source="Orion">landlords</keyword> chalk the number of evictions up to procedural issues at the state level, which has made the application process difficult to complete, and whose housing agency often does not respond to applicants, The State's Rebecca Liebson <a href="https://www.thestate.com/news/state/south-carolina/article256813802.html">reported</a> on January 4.Some states, like South Carolina, haven't spent most of the hundreds of millions in federal aid they received last year, meant to be distributed to tenants in danger of eviction. It's a case study in how a federal response to a crisis doesn't always translate to timely state action. South Carolina has had the <a href="https://issuu.com/schousing/docs/sc_needs_assessment_report_finalweb?fr=sY2QzYzE3MTk1MQ">highest eviction rate</a> in the country by far, according to Princeton University's Eviction Lab, both as a state and in individual counties. Despite changes to the process on the part of South Carolina's housing department — which also attempted to address obstacles posed by landlords — tenants and advocates say that applying for relief remains difficult."Many people got stuck in the process and could not get the help they needed," Sue Berkowitz, director of the SC Appleseed Legal Justice Center, told Insider. <h2>Federal assistance isn't making its way down</h2>The federal <keyword id="11957476" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="eviction-moratorium" source="Orion">eviction moratorium</keyword>, which <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/eviction-moratorium-ending-what-to-expect-landlords-rents-tenants-2021-7">ended</a> in August, as well as a set of state eviction bans, have been responsible for keeping <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/states-with-ongoing-eviction-bans-after-biden-ban-shut-down-2021-8">millions</a> of Americans in their homes during the pandemic, protection that has ended in recent months, and is continuing to cease across states this week. Despite the federal government giving South Carolina<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/dollar271-million-rent-relief-program-is-coming-to-sc-heres-how-to-apply/ar-BB1g4Tc5"> $271 million</a> to help keep renters in their homes in April, only a quarter of that money was given out by the end of 2021, according to an <a href="https://nationalequityatlas.org/">analysis</a> by the National Equity Atlas.A full 15 states including South Carolina had distributed less than 20% of the total cash each received from the federal government by the end of October, the National Equity Atlas found. This left 4.7 million low-income households in South Carolina, Georgia, Delaware, and Alabama still behind on rent — and at risk of eviction — by that time. Just over $69 million of the aid has been distributed to nearly 14,000 households in South Carolina by January 7, Chris Winston, a spokesperson for the SC State Housing Finance and Development Authority, which oversees the state's <keyword id="12932991" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="rental-assistance" source="Orion">rental assistance</keyword> program, told Insider. This is while the counties of Richland and Charleston, which received federal funding separate from the housing department's, have spent nearly all their money, and stopped accepting applications. <h2>County-by-county delivery has been uneven</h2>Many practical problems within SC Stay Plus, the South Carolina housing department's rental assistance program, are responsible for the stall in distribution across 42 counties, according to lawyers and housing advocates. Additionally, Winston said, landlords refusing to cooperate with tenants have also compounded the obstruction to cash flow. Seven of South Carolina's largest counties, including Charleston, were excluded from the federal funding because they<a href="https://charlestoncounty.org/erap/"> received</a> money from the US Department of Treasury to run their own programs. Richland County is still seeing evictions, and<a href="https://www.wistv.com/2021/12/14/richland-county-looks-us-treasury-sc-housing-after-using-up-rental-aid-funds/"> requested</a> money from the SC Stay Plus fund. On Thursday, Winston told Insider, the US Treasury approved a request by the housing department to allocate $10 million to Charleston County. The biggest challenge is getting those applications completed.<h2>The process of completing an application has been fraught for many</h2>There are five steps to the application, according to the housing department's website: respondents must first complete an application with basic information, then submit requested documents. That's where things tend to go wrong, with applicants reporting that they're asked to re-upload items they already did, or that they're continually asked to upload new things after they've completed the application. There is a section for landlords to upload their own documents, another area where tenants may encounter holdup from landlords. Finally, there is a section for tenants to check their application status, where applicants say they're often left in limbo. The housing department said it's unaware of any situations where documentation was lost, and that a call back was replaced to everyone who requested one, but said that they did not reach out to applicants again if they had full voicemails or didn't anwer the initial call. Berkowitz told Insider that tenants applying for aid through SC Stay Plus would often not hear back from the agency when asking questions about applying, that tenants were often told that their applications were being addressed without follow up, and that applicants would continually see materials lost by the agency. She also said that there's a backlog because of the amount of documentation the tenants are required to provide, which Winston said as well. Landlords have otherwise been causing problems for the tenants by not being cooperative with the process. "I think it has gotten to the point where they don't care, it has taken so long they just want to cut their losses," and get new tenants in, she added, even if that means sacrificing back rent.Winston also said that landlords have been responsible for much of the holdup, adding that the department changed their guidelines over the summer to allow direct payment to tenants when landlords are unresponsive, but he said landlords will always be their first option. For example, landlords are still asked to provide a W-9 or other documentation to receive payments for the initial application. From what she's heard from tenants, changes haven't fixed the problems within the process, Berkowitz said."I just received an email from someone last week that the agency has known about since September, and [because] the landlord has not been cooperating for the past 6 weeks, the application has stalled," she said.

South Carolina has the most evictions in the country — but it's only doled out a quarter of the $271 million in pandemic aid for renters it got from the federal government

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A California couple decided to <keyword id="11948118" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="rent" source="Orion">rent</keyword> their home instead of selling it when they moved into an RV.</li><li>The renters stopped paying. The landlords said amid <keyword id="12368679" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="eviction" source="Orion">eviction</keyword> moratoriums, they've lost their savings.</li><li>This is their story, as told to freelance writer Jamie Killin.</li></ul>This is the story of a couple who rented their home in California and stopped receiving payments during the pandemic, as told to freelance writer Jamie Killin. Insider reviewed the lease agreement and court documents between the landlords and renters. We've chosen to keep all names private.When my husband, who's 74, and I, a disabled 65-year-old woman, decided to live out of an RV, we leased our house in California, with an option to buy to a young couple with a toddler. Shortly after they moved into the house in February 2020, the pandemic struck and they quit paying rent. With eviction moratoriums in the US - which have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/us/eviction-moratorium-ends.html">been off and on</a> since the beginning of the pandemic, and were most recently <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/eviction-moratorium-end-what-will-happen-to-rents-tenants-landlords-2021-8">ended by the Supreme Court</a> in August - they've now cost us our entire savings.Our intent was to sell the house, never to be landlords. But at the time the market wasn't what it is right now, and we saw this young couple who had a baby and said all the right stuff. We thought this was a really good deal for everybody, and we thought it was the best option for us.Now, we're just struggling along. Since we stopped receiving rent, we've used the majority of our savings to not lose our property.Our tenants agreed to get out by July 31, when an <keyword id="11957476" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="eviction-moratorium" source="Orion">eviction moratorium</keyword> was still in effect. But then they kept asking for "one more week," and we felt like we didn't have any other choice but to move forward with the eviction.They've moved out of the house but haven't returned the keys. There have been doors left open. The landscaping is gone, the house is very filthy with cobwebs and the carpet ruined, things like that. It's confusing because, in essence, they've abandoned the property and they tell us they're coming back, but then they don't. We unfortunately aren't able to enter until they're officially no longer tenants.We're currently living in our RV in Utah, and our only income is social security since all of our retirement money is in the equity of our house. Because of this situation, my husband has gone to over-the-road truck driving to keep up the payments on the house.<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/14/landlords-covid-eviction-ban-504472">House Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said landlords know how to get a loan</a>. Well, you can't get a loan when you're not getting the income to support paying back the loan. That's not an option for the everyday mom-and-pop landlord.Now my husband is gone all the time and I'm left at home to cope alone. We're supporting this young family and they're not even related to us. I'm scheduled for a major surgery soon and only can hope that my husband will be able to be home to help. We haven't figured out how that's going to happen, but we'll deal with it when we get there.Our tenants did pay us for their first month in February, and we've received maybe one or two payments during that time. But for the rest of the time, they haven't made a payment.They also didn't comply with any of the COVID-19<a href="https://housing.ca.gov/tenant/protection_guidelines.html"> eviction-moratorium requirements</a> put forward by the state of California. They didn't supply us with any of the required information or pay the required 25% of the rent. They also weren't willing to apply - even with our help - for any of the aid that's available.My husband was actually a real-estate mortgage broker, so we're aware of what we're doing, but both of us have always looked out for people and tried to give them opportunities. We've also tried to set up mediation with the family in order to solve this, but they've no-showed to both meetings.Now, we are in the process of trying to evict them. We began prior to the eviction moratorium <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/eviction-moratorium-end-what-will-happen-to-rents-tenants-landlords-2021-8">being ended by the Supreme Court</a>, because the house was in poor condition and they weren't complying with the requirements.But the person handling <keyword id="11948116" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="evictions" source="Orion">evictions</keyword> locally is telling us now that they don't know what to expect from the judges, and we don't have high hopes. You just hope you can make it through and that it doesn't push you into a financial disaster.When we heard the moratorium was initially going to be extended earlier this summer, it was just another: "Oh no." You try not to let anger eat you up. We didn't want to rent, and we still don't.We plan to sell the house after the official eviction. Now that my husband's working full time and driving a truck, we'll have to figure out how we'll get up there and get things and straighten back out, but we intend to sell it and go forward with whatever it takes to get the house back in our possession.My husband and I run into people with the same situation and know we're not the only ones. I can't tell you how many people share with us - they're just mom-and-pop setups with one or two rentals, and they could be your next-door neighbor - that they're struggling since the eviction moratorium.We know it won't do us any good to let anger swallow us, so we just try to take it day by day. Evictions can be hard for everyone involved, including single-home landlords.

We rented our home when we moved into an RV. Now, eviction moratoriums have cost us our entire savings.

The <keyword id="6354977" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</keyword> Tuesday deferred to November 5 the hearing on a batch of pleas relating to charging of interest on interest by banks on EMIs which were not paid by the borrowers who availed of the RBI <keyword id="6840678" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="loan-moratorium">loan moratorium</keyword> scheme in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. The <keyword id="6354335" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="reserve-bank-of-india">Reserve Bank of India</keyword> and the Finance Ministry have already filed separate additional affidavits in the apex court saying that the banks, financial and non-banking financial institutions will credit into the accounts of eligible borrowers by November 5 the difference between compound and simple interest collected on loans of up to Rs 2 crore during the <keyword id="117489" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="moratorium">moratorium</keyword> scheme period. A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy and M R Shah was requested by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta that the hearing in the loan moratorium case be deferred as he would be busy arguing on behalf of the Centre in other matter relating to the Central Vista project. "These moratorium matters were listed yesterday but they came up today. I am requesting for an adjournment considering I have a case (Central Vista) where I will be arguing" the law officer said. A letter seeking deferment of the hearing in the case was also circulated by advocate-on-record Anil Katiyar for the Centre to the parties and the bench. The top court acceded to the request and adjourned the hearing on pleas including the one filed by Gajendra Sharma on November 5. The pleas pertained to charging of interest on interest by banks on EMIs which have not been paid by borrowers after availing the loan moratorium scheme of RBI during March 1 to August 31. Earlier, the RBI had filed the affidavit saying that it has asked all banks, financial and non-banking financial institutions to take "necessary actions" to credit into the accounts of eligible borrowers the difference between compound and simple interest collected on loans of up to Rs 2 crore during the moratorium scheme. Prior to this, the central government had told the apex court that lenders have been asked to credit into the accounts of eligible borrowers the difference between compound and simple interest collected on loans of up to Rs 2 crore during the RBI's loan moratorium scheme by November 5. The government had said that the ministry has issued a scheme as per which lending institutions would credit this amount in the accounts of borrowers for the 6-month loan moratorium period which was announced following the COVID-19 pandemic situation. On October 14, the apex court had observed that the Centre should implement "as soon as possible" the interest waiver on loans of up to Rs 2 crore under the RBI's moratorium scheme and had said that the common man's Diwali is in the government's hands. The RBI had on March 27 issued the circular which allowed lending institutions to grant a moratorium on payment of instalments of term loans falling due between March 1, 2020, and May 31,2020, due to the pandemic. Later, the moratorium was extended till August 31 this year. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/thelife/personalities/news/prajakta-koli-aka-mostlysane-advice-for-content-creators-on-the-fine-line-between-brand-collaborations-and-staying-honest-on-social-media/articleshow/79013162.cms">Prajakta Koli aka MostlySane’s advice for content creators on the fine line between brand collaborations and staying honest on social media</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/ecommerce/news/flipkart-acquires-gaming-startup-mech-mocha-as-it-looks-to-tap-the-social-gaming-space-for-more-consumers/articleshow/79014466.cms">Flipkart acquires gaming startup Mech Mocha as it looks to tap the social gaming space for more consumers</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/covid-19-vaccine-updates-pfizer-moderna-to-roll-out-covid-19-vaccine-by-december/articleshow/78924143.cms">COVID-19 vaccine tracker: German CureVac shows an immune response, Aspen Pharmacare and J&amp;J sign pact to make vaccine in South Africa</a>

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