LA Times: Los Angeles can find a fairer way to raise the rent
Los Angeles Times, December 8, 2024. “The Los Angeles City Council is considering changing the way it sets annual allowable increases for rent-controlled properties for the first time in nearly 40 years. That’s good. The law needs to do more to prevent price shocks for tenants during periods of high inflation while ensuring landlords can recoup the costs of managing their properties.”
Los Angeles Times, December 8, 2024. “The Los Angeles City Council is considering changing the way it sets annual allowable increases for rent-controlled properties for the first time in nearly 40 years. That’s good. The law needs to do more to prevent price shocks for tenants during periods of high inflation while ensuring landlords can recoup the costs of managing their properties.”
CityWatchLA: After the LA Fires
CityWatchLA, February 27, 2025. “The Keep LA Housed coalition demanded a city-wide emergency eviction moratorium on the second day of the fires. LATU echoed this demand on the following day, also calling for a rent freeze and seizure of vacant homes for those displaced.”
CityWatchLA, February 27, 2025. “The Keep LA Housed coalition demanded a city-wide emergency eviction moratorium on the second day of the fires. LATU echoed this demand on the following day, also calling for a rent freeze and seizure of vacant homes for those displaced.”
KPCC-FM (PASADENA, CA)
KPCC-FM, February 26, 2025. “Sarah Rogozen, an attorney with Public Counsel, is glad officials reversed course. “The initial statement we felt was incorrect, and that is confusing when landlords and tenants don't know who's responsible for what.”
KPCC-FM, February 26, 2025. “Sarah Rogozen, an attorney with Public Counsel, is glad officials reversed course. “The initial statement we felt was incorrect, and that is confusing when landlords and tenants don't know who's responsible for what.”
LA Daily news: LA City Council approves pause on evictions for extra occupants due to wildfires
“‘Tenants were already struggling to pay rent, saddled with rent debt and one missed paycheck away from losing their homes,’ said Christina Boyer, an attorney with Public Counsel and a member of Keep LA Housed. ‘The fires have only made this dire situation worse and people have a real risk of losing their houses.’”
February 4, 2025. “‘Tenants were already struggling to pay rent, saddled with rent debt and one missed paycheck away from losing their homes,’ said Christina Boyer, an attorney with Public Counsel and a member of Keep LA Housed. ‘The fires have only made this dire situation worse and people have a real risk of losing their houses.’”
la times: signs of rent gouging rise across region in fires’ wake, bringing calls for enforcement
“As fires continue to burn, tenant advocates and everyday people are scouring rental listing websites and compiling shareable databases of suspected gouging, sharing them with authorities and the press and on social media. Chelsea Kirk, an organizer overseeing one spreadsheet, said the practice appears ‘widespread and rampant’ and that people are venting their outrage directly to landlords and agents.”
January 15, 2025. “As fires continue to burn, tenant advocates and everyday people are scouring rental listing websites and compiling shareable databases of suspected gouging, sharing them with authorities and the press and on social media. Chelsea Kirk, an organizer overseeing one spreadsheet, said the practice appears ‘widespread and rampant’ and that people are venting their outrage directly to landlords and agents.”