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A new report finds that L.A.’s new anti-rent gouging laws have not resulted in lawsuits or fines against landlords who jacked up rents after the fires.
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L.A. has frozen rents in rent-controlled housing since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Starting Thursday, landlords can charge up to 6% more.
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Federal officials say they’re making progress in housing unhoused veterans in the L.A. area, as they push back on calls by a federal judge and advocates to return to housing 4,000 veterans at the agency’s sprawling West L.A. campus.
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Rent in L.A. was never canceled during the pandemic — only delayed. The city’s renters have until Feb. 1 to get all caught up.
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Now that L.A. officials know who landlords are trying to evict, city workers are showing up at renters’ doorsteps to offer help.
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Applications open Tuesday, Jan. 30.
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The Office of the City Attorney says state law allows the evictions.
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A final vote on requiring air conditioning in L.A. apartments is still months away. But local landlord groups have begun fighting the idea.
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This means L.A. tenants who violated their leases during the COVID-19 pandemic by adopting a pet will be protected from eviction.
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Faith-based organizations will host small overnight shelters.
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Over the next three days, volunteers will spread out across 4,000 miles of Los Angeles County to count their unhoused neighbors.
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In her first week in office, Mayor Karen Bass exempted new low-income housing from lengthy environmental challenges. Why is the city now accepting appeals?
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The state program, which has allocated $3.5 billion to convert motels, hotels, and office spaces into residences for the unhoused, has now reached 15,000 new units.
