Nonprofits and advocates urge City Hall officials to address a possible disaster
Mayra Granillo has lived in the same apartment in Hollywood for 32 years. But at about the time she fell ill in the early days of theand was forced to stay home for a month, she was fired from one of her two jobs. She returned to her second job, only to have her employer cut her hours from full to part-time.
They fear that if no further actions are taken to prevent landlords from evicting tenants come Aug. 1, eviction filings will only soar – resulting in more people living on the streets at a time when the city’s homeless population is at an all-time high. Daniel Yukelson, executive director of the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles, said in an email Tuesday landlords were “left powerless” against nonpaying tenants and were “taken advantage of” during the pandemic. He described scenarios where landlords did not receive rent payments while their tenants bought new cars, went on vacations and, in some instances, purchased their own properties.
On Tuesday, tenant rights advocates said $20 million in voter-approved Measure ULA funds should be set aside for a rental assistance program but the program has yet to launch. They criticized city leaders for not ensuring the program would be up and running before the Aug. 1 rent repayment deadline. The mayor, in a separate statement, also referenced the emergency rental assistance program and noted that the programs are pending council approval when the City Council returns from recess next week.
The City Council is on recess and won’t meet again until Aug. 1 – the same day as the first rent debt deadline.
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