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To: The City of Stockton
Emergency Rent & Debt Collection
We believe that an immediate moratorium on collecting rent and mortgage for the month of April and forgiveness of interest, late fees, or the owing of that month's rent in the future should be implemented. Options for deferring mortgages should be discussed. This moratorium, forgiveness, and deferment should continue as long as the critical and necessary social distancing continues, or longer as the economy recovers.
Why is this important?
As a group, the working class of Stockton have been financially devastated by the critical and necessary measures put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19. Though the federal or state government may eventually provide relief, the immediate conservation of our limited financial resources is necessary for our own and our family's health and well-being. Rentors, Leasors, banks and other relevant institutions can, as a class, seek their own relief; the state and federal government is much more responsive and historically more likely to act on their behalf. We must protect our limited cash flow immediately.
What happens in May when I owe 2 months rent?
Or June when I owe 3?
I won't be evicted now because they don't want me on the streets but will they evict me then?
The rent needs to be forgiven while I CANT WORK.
What happens when the businesses who can't reopen fail and millions are looking for work?
Rent and Mortgage moratorium (no rent or mortgage collection), forgiveness (you will never owe it), deferment (interest or payments are frozen and moved forward) are absolutely necessary to our current health and well being, and our economic future.
What happens in May when I owe 2 months rent?
Or June when I owe 3?
I won't be evicted now because they don't want me on the streets but will they evict me then?
The rent needs to be forgiven while I CANT WORK.
What happens when the businesses who can't reopen fail and millions are looking for work?
Rent and Mortgage moratorium (no rent or mortgage collection), forgiveness (you will never owe it), deferment (interest or payments are frozen and moved forward) are absolutely necessary to our current health and well being, and our economic future.