Overview
- Supervisor Lindsey Horvath’s motion to raise the eviction threshold to three months and apply it countywide failed to advance when no colleague offered a second.
- The board last week instructed counsel to draft an ordinance for unincorporated areas requiring at least two months of unpaid fair market rent before an eviction can proceed, with a return to the board expected within about a month.
- Tenant advocates tied rent distress to recent federal immigration enforcement, and an L.A. Economic Development Corporation report found 82% of surveyed small businesses reported negative impacts.
- Landlord and property owner groups opposed broader protections, warning they would impose unsustainable losses on small housing providers and invite legal challenges.
- The meeting drew boos and chants of “Cowards,” and supervisors briefly recessed into closed session to consult attorneys.