The Los Angeles City Council approved an emergency moratorium on evictions Tuesday to stop landlords from quickly booting tenants before new statewide rental rules take effect in January. The ordinance, proposed by Councilmen Mitch O’Farrell and Curren Price, is meant to stop what tenants groups have called a wave of no-fault evictions undertaken since Gov. “This ordinance is an important stopgap measure that will prevent evictions before the new state law takes effect.”Under Los Angeles’ rent control ordinance, tenants who live in buildings built on or before Oct. 1, 1978, already have strong protections against no-fault evictions and rent increases. But he doubted many landlords are actually handing out such notices to raise rents for good before the state law takes effect. The emergency city ordinance affects buildings built before 2005 and will expire when the new state rules take over.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 22, 2019 19:38 UTC