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$3,000 per unit base amount, increasing yearly with CPI since July 1, 2019; current rates on city website. Applies: Only for no-fault evictions at properties with 10+ rental units; low-income, 60+, disabled, or minor renter; split among them; written proof within 15 days.
§ 9.68.060 · code textNotwithstanding subsection (b)(1), each residential rental unit that, at the time the landlord provides notice of its intent to seek an eviction subject to this section, is occupied by a low-income household as defined in Chapter 16.65, a renter who is 60 years of age or older, a renter who is disabled within the meaning of Government Code section 12955.3, or a renter who is a minor, shall be entitled to a single additional relocation payment of $3,000.
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| Amount |
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$7,000 base amount, increasing yearly with CPI since July 1, 2019; current rates on city website. Applies: 0-bedroom units; no-fault evictions in buildings or lots with 10 or more rental units.
§ 9.68.060 · code text| 0 bedrooms | $7,000 | -
$9,000 base amount, increasing yearly with CPI since July 1, 2019; current rates on city website. Applies: 1-bedroom units; no-fault evictions in buildings or lots with 10 or more rental units.
§ 9.68.060 · code text| 1 bedroom | $9,000 | -
$13,000 base amount, increasing yearly with CPI since July 1, 2019; current rates on city website. Applies: 2-bedroom units; no-fault evictions in buildings or lots with 10 or more rental units.
§ 9.68.060 · code text| 2 bedrooms | $13,000 | -
$17,000 base amount, increasing yearly with CPI since July 1, 2019; current rates on city website. Applies: Units with 3 or more bedrooms; no-fault evictions in buildings or lots with 10 or more rental units.
§ 9.68.060 · code text| 3 or more bedrooms | $17,000 | -
1 month of the rent in effect when the termination notice was issued. Applies: No-fault evictions of covered tenancies, unless the 10+-unit payment is greater; the landlord may instead waive the last month's rent.
§ 9.68.050 · code textThe amount of relocation assistance or rent waiver shall be equal to one month of the renter’s rent that was in effect when the landlord issued the notice to terminate the tenancy.
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| Exemptions |
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Not covered: single-family dwellings; transient hotel, boardinghouse or lodginghouse rooms rented for less than 30 days; condominium, community apartment, planned development or stock cooperative units; housing shared by landlord and tenant; hospital, care-facility and school dormitory housing; government-regulated or subsidized rents; units acquired by a government for public use Applies: the 10+-unit relocation payment
§ 9.68.060 · code textThis section shall not apply to any of the following: -
The 1-month payment does not apply when the 10+-unit payment is available and larger. Applies: For tenancies that require just cause to end.
§ 9.68.050 · code textThis section shall be applicable only to tenancies for which just- cause is required to terminate the tenancy under section 9.68.040 (Just-cause evictions required), except it shall not apply to a tenancy when relocation assistance payment is available to the renter through section 9.68.060 (Relocation assistance for evictions without at-fault just cause in structures or lots containing 10 or more residential rental units) and the assistance available through section 9.68.060 is greater in value than the assistance available through this section.
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| When it is paid |
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Half when the landlord gives notice of the eviction; the rest to each renter when they move out. Applies: For the 10+-unit payment, split proportionally among renters.
§ 9.68.060 · code textOne half of the payment shall be paid at the time that the landlord provides notice of its intent to seek a qualifying eviction; the remainder of the payment shall be paid to each renter when that renter vacates the unit. -
Within 15 days of the renter's written notice to the landlord. Applies: For the extra $3,000, when a qualifying renter gives notice and proof within 15 days of the landlord's notice.
§ 9.68.060 · code textThe entirety of this additional payment shall be paid within 15 days of the renter’s written notice to the landlord. -
Within 15 calendar days after the notice is served. Applies: For the 1-month relocation assistance.
§ 9.68.050 · code textAny relocation assistance shall be provided within 15 calendar days of service of the notice.
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| When relocation is owed |
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Any eviction except at-fault just cause or government tenancy-qualification rules; temporary moves of 31 days or fewer excluded. Applies: Buildings or lots with 10 or more rental units.
§ 9.68.060 · code textWhenever a landlord seeks an eviction for any reason other than to comply with regulations relating to the qualifications of tenancy established by a governmental entity or at-fault just cause other than temporary displacement of 31 days or fewer, the landlord shall provide a relocation assistance payment as follows: -
Termination notice based on a no-fault just cause Applies: Tenancies for which just cause is required and section 9.68.060 does not provide greater assistance
§ 9.68.050 · code textIf a landlord issues a termination notice based on a no-fault just cause described in section 9.68.020(f)(2), the landlord shall, regardless of the renter’s income, at the landlord’s option, do one of the following:
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