A key committee of the Municipal Council of Los Angeles rejected an effort on Wednesday to freeze the rents throughout the city, but has advanced a series of expulsion protections for people economically affected by recent fires.
During a 3-1 vote, the housing and homeless committee approved a motion that would prevent owners from avoiding tenants for various reasons, including for the non-payment of rent or if an owner wanted to move into a unit. Such evictions would only be prohibited for tenants who were economically injured by fires, and the ban would last a year.
The motion goes to the complete municipal council, where it is not clear that it has the votes to pass.
A previous version of the proposal, which included a freeze on the city's scale in addition to expulsion protections, was heard last week to the Council, but was returned to the committee in the midst of fears among certain members of the Council that the freeze of rents and expulsion protections were too large.
Since the fires broke out on January 7, there was widespread reports of price priceBut we do not know how much rental prices as a whole increased in the region.
Housing and disaster recovery experts said they expect the rent to increase a certain measureBecause thousands of houses have been destroyed in an already tight market.
Most lost houses seem to be unified houses, and because of this, some experts have said they expect the rent to increase most in larger units to burning areas, ascending pressure on costs decreasing as units become smaller and more distant from the catastrophic area.
The council took some measures to protect the tenants. Tuesday he gave temporary approval To a proposal that would prohibit owners from expiring the tenants for having allowed the people or pets displaced by the fires of last month to live with them.
On Wednesday, the members of the Housing and Sans-Abrisme Committee rejected the freezing of the rents despite the arguments of the tenants and their defenders of the meeting.
Committee members have rather advanced expulsion protections. Adrin Nazarian, Ysabel Jurado and Nithya Raman, Chairman of the Committee.
The member of the Bob Blumenfield council voted no and expressed his concern that the expulsion protections were too swept away, a feeling that the owners and their representatives shared during the meeting.
Instead, Blumenfield said he would like the Council to explore the tenants who are economically affected by the shots a period of grace to pay the rent.
