Rent

Imperial Beach resident Patricia Mendoza is struggling to pay her rent. But through research, she’s found ways to support her family through the pandemic. She wants to pass along those lessons.

Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez will introduce a motion Tuesday to expand the city’s Emergency Renters Relief Program using additional funding approved by Congress to assist tenants during the COVID-19 pandemic.

While some data shows that millennials may be the least racially biased group in the nation, they still show “strong racial bias and anti-Blackness” when looking for roommates, a UCLA study released today suggests.

Apartment rents continued to plummet in the Bay Area’s biggest cities, with San Francisco seeing a nearly 25% plunge since the coronavirus pandemic began in March, according to a report from researcher Apartment List.

U.S. District Judge Dean D. Pregerson’s order keeps in place citywide ordinances designed to protect tenants during the public health crisis.

California voters will be asked to decide during the 2020 Presidential election whether to allow local governments to establish rent control on properties over 15 years old.

While rents are dipping in many cities throughout the Bay Area and the country, no place is seeing prices drop further or faster than San Francisco.

Small landlords say they need assistance from the government with rents no longer coming in. Randy Mac reported on NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law that temporarily bans evictions for people who have not paid their rent because of the coronavirus

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Demonstrators who gathered again Sunday outside the home of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti called on the city to cancel rents for people finding it hard to make ends meet as the coronavirus pandemic ravages California’s economy.

The coronavirus pandemic is entering a new month, meaning Americans struggling amid the economic fallout once again have to worry about paying their rent

Bay Area rents continued to drop in June, according to rental listing site Zumper.

Randy Mac reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Monday, June 29, 2020.

Sada Jones anxiously paces inside her apartment every time she catches a glimpse of her building’s maintenance workers through a damaged glass patio door half boarded up with scrap wood that she says her landlord refuses to repair. Jones, 23, a hotel cook, has been unable to make rent payments on her New Orleans-area apartment since being furloughed on March…

The coronavirus pandemic has shut housing courts and prompted most states and federal authorities to initiate policies protecting renters from eviction.

First it was price gouging with hand sanitizer and toilet paper. Now the issue is coming up with rental housing. Randy Mac reports for the NBC4 I-Team on Monday, June 8, 2020.

Renters in multiple Bay Area counties could be receiving an extended lifeline this week as those local governments consider extending moratoriums on evictions.

Californians unable to pay their rent because of the coronavirus crisis could have their payments covered by the state Legislature, Senate leaders announced Tuesday, part of a massive $25 billion aid package that looks to the future to pay for relief needed today.

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, renters in many states are protected by a temporary moratorium on evictions. However, the rules leave tenants across the country with a lot of unanswered questions. For example, can a landlord evict you as soon as the relief period ends? Will not paying rent trash your credit and make it close to impossible to get a…