A handful of California cities are still enforcing laws that protect tenants from eviction or rent increases, extending pandemic-era policies that most of the country wound down more than a year ago.

The San Francisco board of supervisors voted in March to maintain a local eviction ban for unpaid rent until at least the summer. In Oakland and Berkeley, similar laws will also run into the summer months. The city of Los Angeles, meanwhile, extended a prohibition on evicting tenants for having unauthorized pets or occupants in their apartments. It also renewed a rent freeze on rent-controlled apartments until next year.

Eviction moratoria, initially enacted nationwide in 2020, sought to limit the spread of Covid-19 and prevent tenants who lost income because of the pandemic from losing their homes. Those concerns have receded and on Friday the World Health Organization declared an end to the Covid-19 emergency.

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