Council members propose measures to provide rent relief and create a jobs program to put residents to work after the coronavirus threat subsides.
Landlords in Los Angeles are pushing tenants to agree to repayment plans far more onerous than what’s required under new laws passed to prevent evictions.
Elena Popp, executive director of the Eviction Defense Network, argued that many renters are living so close to poverty that they will be unable to catch up after the crisis. “Unless we get further relief — including rent forgiveness and mortgage relief — we will find ourselves facing huge numbers of evictions in a year,” Popp said.outside the homes of Garcetti, Martinez and Councilmen Mitch O’Farrell and Paul Krekorian, shouting and honking their horns.
“A complete ban on evictions would merely turn up the heat on mortgage defaults and place housing providers in more financial distress than already exists,” Daniel Yukelson, executive director of the Apartment Assn. of Greater Los Angeles, said in an email. Bonin and Ryu “have conceived this concept of virtually ‘no evictions’ to pander for votes from the city’s renters knowing that for the next few months, the courts are, in effect, closed for hearing eviction cases.
But landlords are still allowed to initiate cases and slap eviction notices on their tenants’ doors. Activists said they were worried that landlords could continue to do so to intimidate renters.
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