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REPORT - SONOMA COUNTY COVID-19 EVICTION DEFENSE ORDINANCE
BACKGROUND: On March 24, 2020, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, acting in its capacity as both the Board of Supervisors and the Board of Commissioners of the Sonoma County Community Development Commission, unanimously adopted an ordinance providing an avenue for relief from evictions for tenants suffering from substantial loss of income or medical expenses related to the COVID-19 pandemic or any local, state, or federal government response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ordinance establishes an affirmative defense, which may be used in court as protection against eviction, for tenants who can demonstrate, though documentation or other objectively verifiable means, that their failure to pay rent results from a substantial loss of income or substantial out-of-pocket medical expenses associated with the COVID-19 pandemic or any local, state, or federal government response to the COVID 19 pandemic. The ordinance does not...
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