Los Angeles
City Council
Agenda Item 7
(7) 210042S9 HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS COMMITTEE REPORT relative to instructing the Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD) and requesting the City Attorney to report to Council with recommendations to ensure Los Angeles Municipal Code Sections (LAMC) 151.09(C)(9) and 165.05(B)(5) can better protect tenants from evictions. Recommendation for Council action, pursuant to Motion (Raman – Hernandez – Hutt): INSTRUCT the LAHD and REQUEST the City Attorney to report to Council within 60 days with recommendations to ensure LAMC Sections 151.09(C)(9) and 165.05(B)(5) can better protect tenants from evictions, especially in cases where landlords have filed eviction cases that are not legal. The report should consult stakeholder organizations, including tenant advocacy groups and landlords, and consider findings produced in various reports compiled by such organizations. Specifically, the report should include: a. Number of notices that have been filed with the LAHD citywide and by Council District since the enactment of the Ordinance, including the delivery method for each notice, relative to the number of evictions that have been filed with the courts within the City of Los Angeles within the same time period. b. Current processes and timeline for how the City verifies the legitimacy of filed notices and recommendations for how this can be more effectively and efficiently verified. c. Current processes for how tenants access filed notices, including how tenants may access these notices within the timeline of a typical unlawful detainer case. - October 15, 2024 - evictions that have been filed with the courts within the City of Los Angeles within the same time period. b. Current processes and timeline for how the City verifies the legitimacy of filed notices and recommendations for how this can be more effectively and efficiently verified. c. Current processes for how tenants access filed notices, including how tenants may access these notices within the timeline of a typical unlawful detainer case. d. Current processes for informing landlords of this requirement. e. Current processes for enforcement against landlords who act out of compliance of this Ordinance, including data on any enforcement actions that have been taken against landlords for violations to date. f. Current processes for partnership with elected offices, including but not limited to providing notices and tenant information in order to provide resources. g. Recommendations for educational outreach programming to encourage greater awareness and compliance for both tenants and landlords. h. Recommendations for potential amendments to align the noticing timeline in a more compatible fashion with the timeline for response to Unlawful Detainers while formally and informally collaborating with the courts to promote awareness and compliance of the municipal noticing requirement during the filing and serving processes for Unlawful Detainers. i. Recommendations for a potential enforcement structure for the notice requirements. Fiscal Impact Statement: Neither the City Administrative Officer nor the Chief Legislative Analyst has completed a financial analysis of this report. Community Impact Statement: None submitted