As we recognize the anniversary of the first shutdown, I want to share with you an update on rental housing dynamics during Year I of the COVID-19 pandemic and where we are heading into Year II.
Given everyone's initial collective hope for our "new normal" to be temporary, many early legislative efforts included long-ago sunset clauses or were date-specific.
Hence, more recent work by our elected officials has been to extend and/or update early emergency measures, although with some consideration for wholesale reviews of responses given time and accumulating impact.
At the beginning of the shutdown a year ago, San Francisco Mayor London Breed ordered a citywide moratorium on residential evictions related to any financial impacts caused by