Los Angeles—which still has a policy preventing landlords from evicting tenants who claim COVID-19 hardships—is planning to replace the eviction moratorium when it ends at the end of this month with a new extended set of tenant protections.
According to a report in the Pasadena Star-News, the City Council is about to adopt a set of universal "just-cause" protections including providing relocation assistance to tenants who are facing steep rent hikes and prohibiting evictions of tenants who owe less than a certain amount of rent.
Tenants in rent-stabilized units or units covered under a separate state law already have just-cause protection. The new law, expected to be approved by the council this month, expands just-cause protections to tenants in 396,000 units in Los Angeles.
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