Los Angeles Apartment Group Files Lawsuit Against City Over Renter Laws
An apartment association is taking the City of Los Angeles to court over two of its renter protection laws, arguing that they are detrimental to rental housing providers and small mom-and-pop landlords.
On March 3, the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles filed a lawsuit in the Los Angeles Superior Court “to prohibit the City’s enforcement of two, recently passed, so-called renter protection ordinances,” according to the group.
Beginning in January, Los Angeles City Council members passed a package of expanded renter protections born out of the COVID-19 era eviction moratorium—permanently codifying temporary laws originally intended to help renters stay afloat who were financially hit hard by the pandemic….