VOICE AND VIEWPOINT - Tenant advocates also reported that tenants who cannot contact or who face harassment from their landlords were effectively locked out of full rent relief, since the state’s plan requires landlords to forgive 20% of rental debt in order to receive the remaining 80%. Tenants in that circumstance can still avoid eviction by paying 25% of their rental debt.| BY NIGEL DUARA | CALMatters IN SUMMARY A small survey of rent relief providers finds that applicants face language, documentation and digital barriers, but the state has fixes on the way. A new survey finds tenants are having a hard time accessing the state’s $2.6 billion emergency rent relief, which is contributing to the slow distribution of […]