A council committee recommended for LA’s eviction protections due to COVID-19 to end on Jan. 31 setting a potential end date for the moratorium.
The committee approved the recommendations from the housing department, with amendments by Martinez, who also chairs the committee. The recommendations included relocation assistance for all evictions deemed no-fault evictions and protections against no-fault evictions for unauthorized pets for an additional year.
If approved by the council, tenants who have missed payments since March 2020 would have to meet two re-payment deadlines. Under state law, they would have until Aug. 1, 2023 to pay back missed rent between March 1, 2020 and Landlords would be able to resume increasing rent on rent-controlled apartments, which account for three-quarters of apartments in Los Angeles, beginning in February 2024.
"There is enough on both sides here for people to be unhappy with,'' Cedillo said."This is probably the best deal that we could put together.''"It's unknowing. It will be difficult. It will not be precise or exact,'' Cedillo said."But we have to be as nuanced as we can be, as thoughtful as we can be. It's broad brushed, but we have to pay attention to the corners, the details, because not one size fits all.