The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to end pandemic-era tenant protections at the end of the year. Click the story to find out more about the rules lift and the protections that will remain.
Patty Leon rents out a single-family home she owns in La Puente, and supported the vote to end COVID-19 eviction protections. She said eviction restrictions ended up costing her tens of thousands of dollars, because she could not remove a non-paying tenant against whom she initiated eviction proceedings in Nov. 2019.
“As a landlord, you do your best to take care of everything, pay your taxes, pay the property insurance and follow all the rules — just to have your state turn your back on you,” Leon said. The tenant’s non-payment of rent predated the pandemic and had nothing to do with COVID-19, Leon said, but it took her until Oct. 2020 to get the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department to carry out a formal eviction. She blames the pandemic eviction rules for the delay, and said she was barred from receiving rent relief due to the tenant’s ineligibility.
“Where is my protection during this time?” Leon asked. “I have bills. I have a life that I have to live. I need food, shelter and medical attention just like tenants do. But if you remove my income, I can't do those things.”Tuesday’s vote will apply to unincorporated parts of L.A. County, as well as any cities within the county that do not have their own stronger tenant protections in place.and ban rent hikes due to COVID-19.
COVID-19 tenant protections have already gone away in many other parts of California. Statewide eviction protections
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