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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…

Keeping a safe social distance in the time of Covid-19 is aimed at protecting us from getting sick, but it’s also creating a new opportunity for scammers who are now targeting people looking for a place to live. Comedian and actress Vickie Eisenstein has encountered this herself. Eisenstein loves her YouTube audience.  So in typical Hollywood style, when she...

The NBC4 I-team reviews tenant rights and rent procedures written during the COVID-19 pandemic. Los Angeles officials are pushing for a citywide rent forgiveness policy.Randy Mac reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Friday, May 1 , 2020.

It’s the first of the month and rent or mortgage payments are due. But many San Diegans tell NBC 7 they will not be able to make May’s payment because they’ve lost their jobs due to the coronavirus.

An outreach program offering advice and resources to renters in Los Angeles’ 11th Council District who can’t pay their rent due to economic hardship from the COVID-19 pandemic has begun, Councilman Mike Bonin announced Friday. The Know Your Rights initiative began Thursday with a telephone town hall discussion focused on helping renters, Bonin said. Nearly 300 people from Bonin’s district...

In its ninth hour of meeting Wednesday, the Los Angeles City Council voted to have the City Attorney’s Office draft an ordinance that would halt rent increases for units protected by the city’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance for 360 days. Initially, motions were filed by Councilmen David Ryu, Mike Bonin and Marqueece Harris-Dawson that would have put a temporary stop...

The Los Angeles Police Department has seen a roughly 300% increase in reports of landlord-tenant disputes compared to two months ago, before stay-at-home orders took effect, according to figures released Monday by a nonprofit news organization. Police responded to 100 calls of renter-landlord disputes on April 1, when rent was due for the first time since stay-at-home orders left waiters,…

Some landlords are taking advantage of the coronavirus outbreak, soliciting sexual favors in lieu of rent payments from economically vulnerable tenants, according to advocates. Khara Jabola-Carolus, executive director of the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, said her office has received more reports of landlords sexually harassing their tenants in the last two weeks than it had in…

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to allocate additional emergency funding to assist struggling renters and expand tenant protections during the COVID-19 crisis. Supervisors Janice Hahn and Hilda Solis asked their colleagues to support setting up an emergency rental assistance program with Community Development Block Grant funds they hope will be provided as part of the…

The gridlocked coronavirus economy could upend housing from coast to coast, bursting national apartment rents that have risen by 150% over the last decade, experts say. Yet the situation will likely do little to alleviate the housing crisis, because the more than 16 million Americans who filed for unemployment insurance in the last three weeks will still need roofs over their heads, say economists and...

Los Angeles County supervisors Janice Hahn and Hilda Solis proposed Thursday an emergency rent-assistance program for up to $1,000 a month for three months to renters affected by the coronavirus pandemic. “As we fight the spread of this virus and do everything we can to save lives, this crisis has devastated families who were already living on the brink of…

Renters worry over paying rent amid the coronavirus pandemic. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1, 2020.

Millions of U.S. households are expected to face financial burdens in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Good news for renters and homebuyers comes this month with word that rents have stabilized or dropped slightly in San Diego County while the price of existing homes rose by a modest 1 percent in November. The Southern California Rental Housing Association reported that overall rents in San Diego County declined slightly for the first time in the past five…