What are the legal provisions for rent reduction during the epidemic?

The legal provisions for rent reduction and exemption during the epidemic period are: the rent of enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households renting state-owned houses below the municipal level in some provinces and cities can be reduced or exempted for one month; For renting other business premises, private owners are encouraged to reduce rent for tenants, but there is no mandatory requirement.

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Article 2 of the Guiding Opinions on Further Helping Small and Micro Enterprises and Individual Industrial and Commercial Households in the Service Industry to Alleviate the Pressure of Housing Rent in Response to the COVID-19 Epidemic.

(a) to promote the lease of state-owned housing (including state-owned enterprises and government departments, universities, research institutes and other administrative institutions, the same below) for small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in the business and service industries, exempt from paying the housing rent for three months in the first half of the year. Sublet and sublet state-owned housing to ensure that the rent-free benefits eventually fall on the lessee.

(two) the lease of state-owned houses owned by the central government (including state-owned houses owned by relevant departments, central enterprises, central universities and research institutes), the implementation of housing rent support policies for small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in the service industry. If the rent reduction affects the performance of state-owned enterprises and institutions, it shall be determined according to the actual situation in the assessment.

(3) For small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households that have difficulties in leasing non-state-owned houses, lessors are encouraged to reduce or postpone the rental of houses on the basis of equal consultation between the two parties, taking into account the actual difficulties of the lessee.