One month late on rent? In Huntington Park, you could soon be protected from eviction<\/p>\n
The Southeast L.A. city of Huntington Park could be the next city to pass a law barring landlords from evicting tenants if they owe one month\u2019s rent or less.<\/p>\n
Normally, if tenants fall short on monthly rent, even by just a few dollars, they can quickly face eviction. But in the past few years, a handful of cities in Southern California have passed rules barring landlords from evicting tenants if they owe one month\u2019s rent or less.<\/p>\n
The Southeast L.A. city of Huntington Park could be the next city to pass such a rule. On Tuesday night, the City Council is expected to vote on a proposal that would give tenants protections from eviction if they\u2019ve failed to pay up to one month\u2019s worth of rent.<\/p>\n
Mateo Gil, an organizer with East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, said renter protections are urgently needed following federal immigration sweeps<\/a> in Southeast L.A.<\/p>\n \u201cThere’s a lot of renters now who are at risk of not being able to pay their rent because their family members were kidnapped, or are having to fundraise because of the fear around going to work,\u201d Gil said. \u201cThis is a protection that would give renters more time if they recently lost income.”<\/p>\n Will the rules lead to tighter tenant screening?<\/p>\n But landlord advocates said the proposed rule would mean rental housing owners couldn\u2019t count on timely payment as required by the lease terms signed by tenants.<\/p>\n \u201cThis idea will ultimately harm the very people it aims to help,\u201d Fred Sutton, spokesperson for the California Apartment Association, said in an email to LAist. \u201cOut of concern about not being compensated, housing providers may tighten screening criteria, making it harder for people to find a home.\u201d<\/p>\n L.A. was the first local city to pass a threshold<\/a> for eviction over non-payment of rent in 2023. The city pegs the limit to one month of the area\u2019s \u201cfair market rent\u201d as determined by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.<\/p>\n Under those rules, if an L.A. tenant renting a two-bedroom apartment is behind on rent by less than $2,601, they have local protections from eviction.<\/p>\n A push to expand non-payment protections<\/p>\n The city of Cudahy, which borders Huntington Park, passed a similar non-payment eviction threshold in October.<\/p>\n About 75% of Huntington Park households are renters, and nearly 97% of residents are Latino.<\/p>\n ICE raids have targeted the city<\/a>, which also saw an instance of someone allegedly impersonating a federal immigration agent<\/a> earlier this summer.<\/p>\n Gil said organizers are now fighting for similar changes in Bell Gardens. He said a one-month threshold could give tenants time to apply for rent relief programs. But he acknowledged that for some, the buffer period won\u2019t be enough to stave off eviction.<\/p>\n \u201cWe’re advocating at the county level as well for there to be a much larger threshold,\u201d Gil said. \u201cSome of the impacts of the ICE raids are going to be months long.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One month late on rent? In Huntington Park, you could soon be protected from eviction The Southeast L.A.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1610,49471,46107,48,52,51,7869,47,50,49,1010],"class_list":{"0":"post-88823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-city-council","9":"tag-eviction-protections","10":"tag-huntington-park","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-headlines","13":"tag-la-news","14":"tag-landlords","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","17":"tag-los-angeles-news","18":"tag-rent"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}