The Beverly Hills City Council stopped short of amending its COVID-19-related Urgency Ordinance for a fifth time on May 19 following a robust Study Session discussion. The Council is expected to adopt a new replacement Urgency Ordinance which will focus on commercial eviction protections in June.
“What we’ve really done is we’ve shifted the playing field where it’s uneven for the tenant,” Mayor Lester Friedman said, noting that “some tenants have been taking advantage” of the ordinance to not pay rent when they are capable of doing so. “It was not our intention to have landlords be banks.”
