LA “renovation” has been completed – at least for now.
On Friday, the Los Angeles City Council voted 12-0 to temporarily prevent landlords from evicting tenants to renovate their property.
this Temporary RegulationsContinued until August 1, always designed as a freeze, while New York City explores permanent legislation when landlords implement substantial remodels to maintain their rent.
According to previous rules, major remodeling (including structural, mechanical or pipeline work) is “Just the reason” Evicting tenants.
The ordinance also applies retroactively, prohibiting refurbished evictions that are pending before the vote.
It was a win for tenant advocates, who believed on Friday that the substantive renovation clause was a loophole that allowed landlords to base themselves on a long-term renter under the guise of improving real estate.
“Today, there are some tenants here to be deported,” Chelsea Kirk, policy director for nonprofit strategic action, said Friday.
It was a blow from landlords and developers who claimed the ordinance tied homeowners’ hands together and prohibited them from upgrading the city’s aging housing stock.
“This decree is the result of extremist hunting, hoping to force the couple’s owner to go bankrupt,” David Kaishchyan of apartment Assn Apartment. Greater Los Angeles said at a meeting on Friday.
The ban is Unanimous City Council vote In October 2024, the Council ordered the Ministry of Housing and City Attorneys to draft recommendations to remove a large number of remodels as justified reasons for the eviction.
