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Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our City Hall newsletter. It’s Julia Wick, with a hand from Rebecca Ellis. Nine months ago, Los Angeles City Council passed its most sweeping tenant protections in decades. The move came under the gun: This was late January, and the city's long-standing COVID-19 anti-eviction rules were set to expire at the end of the month, potentially setting off a wave of evictions.
' Raman spoke about the precarity faced by the city at the moment, with more people falling into homelessness daily, even as hundreds of millions of dollars are spent to stanch the crisis, along with the challenging environment for small landlords. She supported Blumenfield's amendment, she said, because she didn't think the item would move forward otherwise and she wanted it to get to full council.
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