The end of pandemic eviction protections for renters is beginning to lower the amount of bad debt, in the form of unpaid rent and overdue fees, on the balance sheets of apartment landlords throughout Southern California.
In Los Angeles, which adopted some of the strongest pandemic-related protections, the final phased deadline to pay back rent accumulated from 2020 through 2023 arrived on February 1.
A wave of evictions that were blocked by renter protections during the COVID outbreak now are making their way through the county courts. An estimated 46,000 legal evictions were processed in Los Angeles County in 2023, the largest total since 2016, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.
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