The Los Angeles City Council voted to end the city's state of emergency due to COVID-19 on Feb. 1, 2023.
The local state of emergency ensures that renter protections created during the pandemic remain in place, but the city's long-standing eviction protections due to COVID-19 hardship are also set to expire at the end of January.is currently facing a surge in COVID-19 cases. The seven-day average daily rate of people testing positive for the virus was 13.5% as of Tuesday, up from 12.6% a week ago, and the number of new infections reported daily has been rising in recent weeks.
Mayor Eric Garcetti sent a notice to the council Wednesday recommending the end date, claiming that the city has "developed the infrastructure and capacity to manage the previous challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic in a way that they no longer rise to the level where they are beyond the control of the normal services, personnel, equipment and facilities of the regularly constituted branches and departments of the city government.
In October, the council voted 12-0 to approve a package of recommendations from a council committee to sunset the renters protections. Under the council action, landlords will be able to resume increasing rent on rent-controlled apartments, which account for three-quarters of the units in Los Angeles, beginning in February 2024.
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