The couple became dealing with the treatment of cancer and its deficit without shelter after they were removed from their apartment due to the law without heart.
Bradford Berger, 56, and his wife were ready and able to pay the late rent they left, but this did not prevent the property owner from sending the police to force them on the streets on Wednesday.
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Berger walks with cane after an accident at the workplace, while his wife was diagnosed, while his wife Kimberly was recently diagnosed with lymphoma and is currently being treated.
For 15 years, they lived in the backed San Francisco apartment, which they paid $ 250 a month, said Cal Matters.
The couple survived the deficit of $ 900, which was not enough to cover the expenses of living and rent.
Last year, they failed to rent and started a payment plan before they left again in December.
Their limited income qualified them to help through the city program to cover the rear rent.
But the California law allows real estate owners to reject money for any reason and start evacuation procedures based on any unpaid.
Malik Bergers, a local non -profit institution contracting with the San Francisco Housing Authority, has begun the evacuation procedures this year.
On March 5, eight honorable deputies threw the street.
“I believe [the landlord] “You must return as much money as possible,” Berger told Cal Matters.
“Especially if there are no other problems and they are completely financial.”
The owner of Bergers', The Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation, did not respond to the comment request by Sun.
Table problems
California evacuation rates have increased in recent months, as more owners refuse to help rent in favor of moving forward.
The evacuation notifications were 166,463 presented in Los Angeles between February 2023 and November 2024 by an overwhelming majority to not pay the rent, as many tenants lag behind due to medical problems or job loss.
But the evacuation operations have been in a rise since the end of the Covid-19 era, which temporarily stopped it.
How common is evacuation in the United States?
Millions of families receive evacuation notice every year.
The evacuation laboratory at Princeton University estimated that about 7.8 evacuation has been provided every year.
The evacuation laboratory tracks files across 10 states and 36 cities.
In a typical year, the owners offer about 3.6 million evacuation cases.
Source: evacuation laboratory
For tenants like Bergers, the delay in rental payments has almost impossible to keep pace with rent.
The average treatment times to help rent can take up to three months.
With only three working days to respond to the evacuation notice, the tenants who are left behind at the mercy of a legal system often find the angel.
A new law to stop the law without heart
California law that allows real estate owners to expel tenants for lack of payment, even if they can, have become a major point of disagreement for tenant defenders.
Jacqueline Patton, a lawyer for the evacuation defense in San Francisco, said rental assistance programs often delay, and the tenants may face evacuation despite their willingness and are able to pay their rent.
In the face of evacuation, tenants' advocates are pressured for new legislation to prevent owners from evacuating tenants who are ready and able to pay the late rent.
The bill, currently in the California Legislative Council, will require real estate owners to accept payments until evacuation.
The cases will also refuse if the tenants prove that they are eligible for help.
“If you are struggling and able to recover money and pay what you owe, the evacuation procedure must stop immediately,” said Senator Aisha Wahhab, who has composed the bill.
“It will be much lower than a situation – we will be like us,” said Patton, who also supports legislation. Instead of (go) back and forth for three months. “
While real estate owners can work with tenants who apply for help, many prefer to expel instead of accepting partial payments.
“Real estate owners who make unpaid evacuation may have other reasons for evacuating certain tenants, as if they were not maintaining their unity clean or the enemies of other tenants,” Daniel Bournenstein, Malik's lawyer in San Francisco, told Cal Matters.
But he added in opposing the proposed legislation, “There should be a line in the sand from the point of view of public policy or there is no end point when the debt is paid.”
