Oct. 11, 2023
LA defends using COVID renter protection to fight homelessness
“Because evictions can cause profound damage to its communities, the city exercised its police power to regulate them,” City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto’s office wrote in a brief.
The City of Los Angeles defended a pair of post-COVID renter protections in an opposition brief filed to a landlord group’s ongoing lawsuit, pushing back on claims that state law preempts the ordinances.
“When the City emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, it determined that it needed to do more to protect its residents from displacement and homelessness,” read Monday’s filing by City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto’s office. “Because eviction...
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