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….