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Supervisors Extend Cap on Rent Increases in Unincorporated LA County
Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to extend a soon-to-expire cap on rent increases for rent-controlled units in unincorporated LA County. The cap limits rent increases on affected units to 4% through June 2024, up slightly from the 3% cap the supervisors imposed in November 2022.
County supervisor Lindsey Horvath, who drew up the motion to extend the rent cap, told the Los Angeles Times it would affect about 270,000 households. Supervisor Kathryn Barger placed the sole vote against the 4% rent increase cap, calling it a “stopgap policy” that put the burden on mom-and-pop landlords.
The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA) opposed the extension. In an alert posted to the association’s website prior to the supervisors’ vote, AAGLA declared, “Rental housing providers were promised that this limitation on rent increases would expire on Dec. 31, 2023, which is still well beyond the end of the COVID-19 emergency.”
- ◦Policy/Gov't
