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LA City Council Unanimously Votes To End Citywide Eviction Moratorium

October 4, 2022 6:31 pm

In an unanimous 12-0 vote on Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council voted to officially end the city-wide eviction moratorium that had been in place since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic on February 1, 2023. Since 2020, landlords have fought...

LA City Council Committee Recommends End to Eviction Moratorium For January 2023

September 29, 2022 4:38 pm

The Los Angeles City Council Ad Hoc Committee on COVID-19 Recovery and Neighborhood Investment voted 4-0 on Wednesday on a recommendation to end all remaining eviction moratoriums in the city no later than January 31, 2023. Since 2020, landlords have fought...

LA City Council Votes 11-1 To Keep Eviction Moratorium in Place

July 30, 2022 2:30 amJuly 30, 2022 7:43 am

Following the Los Angeles City Council 11-1 vote on Wednesday extending the eviction moratorium yet again despite the pandemic-instituted protection being virtually erased from most other places in state. Los Angeles has had eviction moratoriums in place since the Spring...

California Home Sales Fall Nearly 21% in June, Signaling Market Cooloff

July 19, 2022 12:18 pm

According to a new report from the California Association of Realtors (CAR) released on Monday, home sales plunged by nearly 21% in the state last month, hitting sales levels not seen since the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and the Great Recession,...

San Diego City Council Votes To Institute Cap on Number of Vacation Rental Properties

May 19, 2022 4:05 pm

The San Diego City Council passed a new ordinance earlier this week that will institute a cap on the number of vacation rental properties that the city will allow at any given time designed to crack down on properties that...

The Housing Brick Wall: Wildfire Concerns, Environmental Factors, Affordability Collide In Trend of Overturning Luxury Developments

April 13, 2022 2:19 amApril 12, 2022 9:09 pm

Since October of last year, some of California’s largest proposed luxury housing complexes and developments have been struck down or massively delayed either by courts or directly by the Government. In October, a San Diego Superior Court judge halted most...

First LA County Homeless Count in Two Years Starting Tuesday

February 22, 2022 2:17 amFebruary 21, 2022 8:52 pm

The first Los Angeles County homeless count since 2020 is expected to begin on Tuesday, with millions of dollars in federal and state funding on the line over the count. The count, usually conducted annually every January by the Los...