L.A. plans end to COVID-19 protections against evictions, rent hikes

[OneCrazyDiamond]

https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2022-08-31/l-a-plans-end-to-covid-19-tenant-protections

Los Angeles may wind down many of its COVID-19 protections against evictions and rent increases by January, ending what has become some of the nation’s strongest and longest-lasting tenant safeguards during the pandemic.

Starting in 2023, landlords will once again be allowed to evict tenants for not paying their rent even if they’ve fallen behind for COVID-19-related circumstances, under a proposal released by the city housing department last week. The plan also calls for tenants living in rent-controlled apartments in the city — about three-quarters of the apartment stock — to once again face rent increases the following year, in January 2024.

“As we recover to a new normal, the city must provide clarity to both landlords and renters on the timeline when current and past-due rent must be repaid and temporary eviction restrictions lifted,” the report reads.

If passed by the City Council, the proposal would put L.A. back in line with many cities in California and across the country that have repealed or let expire renter protections enacted when the pandemic began in spring 2020. At the time, citing the risk of widespread homelessness because of COVID-19’s economic damage, local, state and federal leaders passed a battery of rules against evictions and rent hikes.



I hope they don't just get thrown to the street. Hopefully local services will be ready to step in.

[onecaliberal]

1. There is no help for them. There are so many homeless people in LA already.

We have a surplus budget. I don’t get this.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

2. I don't get it either.

Helping the housing insecure helps all of us.

[onecaliberal]

3. Absolutely. For people who've never seen it, it's one thing but fuck

There are homeless people for ten of miles in the city. There is garbage and all other things you would expect. It has grown like wildfire since COVID.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

4. We have similar issues on the central coast.

Instead of providing services. The local gov took down shelters in the parks. Now they huddle beside the freeway. It is so scary to see folks running across the freeway, but it happens often now.