This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Sen. Aisha Wahab implored her colleagues to think of hospitalized patients and struggling families as she pitched a ...

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Sen. Aisha Wahab implored her colleagues to think of hospitalized patients and struggling families as she pitched a proposal to give tenants a full two weeks to pay their past due rent before their ...

“This is a very small ask from the state of California,” Wahab, a Democrat representing the Fremont area, recently told her fellow lawmakers. “(It’s) very small to allow people 14 days to either ask ...