Protections Apply in all 19 Cities and Unincorporated Areas of Contra Costa<\/strong><\/p>\n (Martinez, CA) \u2013 The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors used its emergency powers under state law to pass a comprehensive eviction protection and temporary rent freeze urgency ordinance for all residential and commercial properties in the County during a special Board meeting on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. The vote was unanimous.<\/p>\n The urgency ordinance temporarily prohibits evictions of residential and commercial real property tenants in Contra Costa County impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and establishes a moratorium on rent increases. This law applies to properties in all 19 cities in the County and in all unincorporated areas. To the extent that a city has adopted a law on the same subject matter, then its provisions would apply in that city.<\/p>\n \u201cMy colleagues and I on the Board of Supervisors are deeply aware of the economic impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has on our residents, including the fear of eviction brought on by job losses,\u201d said Supervisor Candace Andersen, Board Chair. \u201cWe hope the passage of this ordinance to protect renters against eviction and the freeze on rent increases will give residents and businesses critical time and support as we respond to the emergency and the changing situation.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAt the same time, we also recognize the impact on landlords. This is not a forgiveness of the rent owed, but a longer period to pay it,\u201d said Supervisor Andersen. \u201cWe hope that property owners and their tenants will work together to reach fair and equitable ways to have the owed rent paid.\u201d<\/p>\n Protections granted to residential and commercial renters include:<\/p>\n Read the full document Ordinance No. 2020-14 (PDF)<\/a>, which is also available on the county website.<\/p>\n For COVID-19 information and resources, visit Contra Costa County at www.contracosta.ca.gov<\/a> and Contra Costa Health Services at https:\/\/cchealth.org\/coronavirus<\/a>. If you have questions, contact our Call Center 1-844-729-8410, open daily from 8 am to 5 pm (available in English and Spanish). For assistance after hours in multiple languages, please call 211 or 800-833-2900 or text HOPE to 20121.\u00a0For the latest updates, follow @CCCounty and @CoCoHealth on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Protections Apply in all 19 Cities and Unincorporated Areas of Contra Costa (Martinez, CA) \u2013 The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors used its emergency … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/aRhxrAHN_400x400.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Ntvs-3FS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14130,"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14128\/revisions\/14130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n