The L.A. City Council is under enormous pressure to finalize a new policy on evictions before the existing emergency order expires at the end of the month.
The L.A. City Council has voted to allow landlords to resume evictions Feb. 1. But additional planned tenant protections have not passed.under consideration would establish a minimum threshold for eviction for tenants who fall behind on rent and require landlords to pay relocation fees in some situations where a large rent increase would result in the tenant’s displacement.
The proposal would also block evictions until February 2024 for tenants who have unauthorized pets or who added residents who aren’t listed on leases, and create a new timeline for paying back rent owed from the emergency period. Tenants would have until Aug. 1 to repay back rent accumulated between March 1, 2020, and Sept. 30, 2021, and until Feb. 1, 2024, to repay back rent accumulated between Oct. 1, 2021, and Jan. 31, 2023.
After remaining starkly below pre-pandemic levels through 2021, countywide eviction filings surged in 2022. The number of eviction filings countywide in November and December outpaced or roughly equaled the number of filings during those same months in 2018 and 2019, according to L.A.
“Many stand to lose their lives and risk their physical and mental health, so these council members should be focused on preserving people’s physical and mental well-being and not preserving investments,” Ghaemi said at a recent council committee meeting. Speaking at a tenant rights rally outside City Hall on a chilly morning last week, Councilmember Nithya Raman noted the new makeup of the council as she outlined the wins she and her allies hoped to achieve. Raman was joined at the rally by Soto-Martínez, Hernandez and Councilmember Heather Hutt, who vowed to “beg our colleagues” to pass the protections.
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