Apartment owners are suing the City of Los Angeles for keeping in place its emergency ban on rent increases first implemented at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a lawsuit filed July 24 in Los Angeles Superior Court, the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles is asking the court to put a stop to the city’s ongoing rent freeze on grounds that it violates the United States and California constitutions and deprives landlords of due process.
“For more than three years, rental housing providers have been saddled with cost increases impacting virtually every line item of their profit and loss statement,” said the association’s Executive Director Daniel Yukelson, in a statement July 24. “All of this comes after three years of lacking rent collections due to the city’s imposed eviction moratorium.” …