Landlords with older buildings in unincorporated L.A. County areas will be able to raise rents by no more than 4% through June under a motion approved Tuesday.
Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to extend — and slightly increase to 4% — a soon-to-expire cap on rent increases, sparing tenants in unincorporated areas from a big rent hike for an additional six months. In November 2022, the supervisors approved a temporary 3% cap on annual rent increases, framing it as a short-term way to keep rent-burdened residents in their homes as the pandemic-era tenant protections dissipated. The cap applies to all rent-controlled units in unincorporated L.
Those are BIPOC people who either bought them years ago or inherited them,' she said. 'So they're property rich and cash poor.' 'They have got to be maintained — because if we lose them, we will be further screwed,' she said. Rather than limit rent increases, Mitchell and Barger said the county should focus on building more housing and getting money out the door that they'd already marked to help small landlords.
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