LA County Rental COVID Moratorium Ends
Eleven hundred and 12 days after it was implemented, L.A. County’s COVID-19 Tenant Protections Resolution — better known as the county’s eviction moratorium — officially expired on April 1, marking an end to one of the country’s last remaining pandemic-born moratoriums.
“It’s about time, is how I feel about it,” said Dan Yukelson, executive director of Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles, a landlord lobbying group. “This thing’s gone on for over three years.”
The county rules have applied to unincorporated parts of L.A. County as well as cities within the county that did not set their own protections. They did not apply to the City of L.A., which had established its own rules; the city’s broad eviction moratorium expired at the end of January, although days before that deadline the City Council — led by its new progressive bloc — also voted to enact new permanent tenant protections, including an expansion of “just cause” eviction rules to all apartments.
The expiration date comes after multiple extensions. In late January, county supervisors voted to extend it to the March 31 date; just days before, supervisors narrowly voted down a resolution that would have extended certain protections for another year.