When the COVID state of emergency expires at the end of the month, so will a set of renter protections that are credited with reducing the growth of homelessness in the city of Los Angeles during the COVID pandemic.
The expiration of the eviction moratorium has advocates worried about tenants losing their homes at a time when 42,000 people in the city are unhoused. In fact, evictions are already on the rise. “We’re headed to an economic train wreck,” said Larry Gross, executive director of the Coalition for Economic Survival. “We’re seeing higher attendance at our clinics. More and more people are being threatened and harassed with evictions.”
