It is funny all these people who want evictions stop don’t understand that in most cases it hurts the average middle class.. I personally know of 3-4 people who owns a second home as rental property they they pay mortgage on. BUT they not longer get rent for over 6 months.. who pays the mortgage? They still do. The banks don’t care. Folks like this editorial thinks it is an unnamed corporation that just has less profits. It is not! Most people who can’t afford rent don’t rent from high priced REITS! They rent from hard working middle class who scraped to buy a 2nd home or small apt complex as income and still paying a mortgage.. SO PLEASE stop with the progressive banter!!!!!

I agree with @Dave Smith. Any direct meddling into the market produces unintended consequences. History shows it over and over without fail. The fairest method to support people in need would be to give them money and let them choose how and where to spend it.

She did not say she wanted evictions to stop and landlords not get paid. She suggested “we can ensure that rental assistance money achieves its intended purpose, preventing homelessness and getting money into the pockets of landlords who need it”. She’s advocating for low income folks but not at the cost of landlords not getting rent money. In your replies you focus on the landlords needing to get paid rent due them but do t even address the very real problems of people not having jobs and not being able to pay their rent. Why not focus on helping BOTH, as she suggests?

I am not at all sure I want the goverment (Cal EDD, County Social Services) intervening in the housing economy even more, using this really untried format Long Term. An Emergency Measure is by nature short term. Like Emergency Evacuation of a workplace to avoid Toxic Material DEATH (I worked with organic arsenic gas compounds), is not the same as a Workplace Safe Materials Handling and Containment System [love good CAL OSHA regulation programs].

Who in the State Legislature is working on new and good (viable longterm econimic models) legislation on rental housing/eviction reduction?

I used to be, for 20 years, a 'small middle class landlord' of a duplex. In exchange for 'deferred tropical and snow sking vacations,' fancy cars, and also investment of literal "sweat equity" I was able to cash out and pay off my family home 30 year mortage early.

Now - would ALL MIDDLE CLASS HOMEOWNERS be willing to give up Half of their goverment subsidized mortage tax break? This has been one of the USA's most expensive poor-to-rich wealth tranfer schemes over the last half centuary. A big reason why - Family Wealth of homeowner is (I think) 10X Family Wealth of renter-families.

End "socialism" for homeowners? Even, reduce it by half? (and fix that corporate income tax Trump mistake?)