Isabel Perez and her husband each lost two jobs in San Francisco restaurants due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They owe three months of rent and, if the moratorium on evictions ending on Aug. 30 in San Mateo County is not extended, they will be left on the streets along with their 10-year-old son.
About 6,900 people in the wealthy enclave along the San Francisco Peninsula are in danger of losing their homes at the end of this month. On Aug. 21, approximately 100 people, including tenants and activists, demonstrated in the courtyard of Santa Clara County Center, located in Redwood City, to ask San Mateo County supervisors for an extension to the moratorium on evictions.
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