The city's renter subsidy is a good start but we need stronger local, state and federal programs to help struggling renters stay housed.
is an important first step toward building a stronger tenant safety net so the pandemic doesn’t worsen L.A.’s already staggering homeless crisis., the city will use federal coronavirus relief dollars to provide subsidies of $1,000 per month for two months to help lower-income tenants pay the rent. The program is open only to tenants whose annual income before the pandemic was less than 80% of the area median income, which translates to about $90,100 for a family of four.
To qualify, tenants will also have to demonstrate that they lost income due to COVID-19. The subsidy will be paid directly to an approved applicant’s landlord. In exchange for accepting the rental assistance, the landlord will be forbidden to raise the rent for 12 months or begin eviction proceedings for tenants in the program for six months after the coronavirus emergency ends.
The program could help 50,000 households — and also their landlords. Some 87% of L.A.’s apartment buildings consist of 10 or fewer units, and many of those owners are mom-and-pop operators who risk losing their buildings if their tenants can’t pay them.L.A.’s rental assistance program is the largest adopted by any city, and more than three times as large as the one the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved Tuesday.
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