Contact:
Los Angeles County Joint Information Center – COVID-19
pio@ceooem.lacounty.gov
Resources for Residential/Commercial Tenants & Landlords, Incident Report
The County of Los Angeles is regularly updating resources on COVID-19 and offers today’s update in an effort to keep you and yours informed. Please share the following up-to-date information:
Resources for Residential/Commercial Tenants & Landlords
Eviction Moratorium
In response to the COVID-19 health crisis, the County of Los Angeles enacted a temporary moratorium, last week, to protect residential and commercial tenants in the unincorporated areas of LA County. Similar to measures adopted by cities across LA County, this moratorium aims to protect those who live in unincorporated areas and are suddenly unable to make rent due to COVID-19.
It offers protection from eviction from March 4, 2020 through May 31, 2020 for:
- Nonpayment of rent; and
- Late charges or any other fees
Landlords will not be able to evict a tenant if a tenant can show an inability to pay rent (and/or related charges) due to financial losses from:
- A diagnosis of COVID-19 or caring for a household/family member who is diagnosed with COVID-19;
- Layoff, loss of hours, or other income reduction resulting from business closure or other economic or employer losses due to COVID-19;
- Compliance with a recommendation from the County’s Health Officer to stay home, self-quarantine, or avoid congregation with others during the state of emergency;
- Extraordinary out-of-pocket medical expenses related to diagnosis and testing for and/or treatment of COVID-19;
- Child care needs arising from school closures related to COVID-19;
- The state of emergency regarding COVID-19;
- Following government-recommended COVID-19 precautions.
A No Fault eviction reason, unless necessary for health or safety reasons
Temporary Rent Freeze
In line with similar orders adopted by cities in the County of Los Angeles, an executive order placing a temporary rent freeze on rent stabilized units in unincorporated parts of LA County has gone into effect.
The temporary rent freeze means that rental costs may not be increased for multi-family housing properties, built before February 1995, until May 31, 2020, unless extended.
Additional Resources
The COVID-19 health emergency has, understandably, left both tenants and landlords with questions. If you happen to be one, LA County wants to help address concerns or questions regarding the rules applicable to your situation.
To learn more about the eviction moratorium, rent freeze, or resources available to tenants and landlords, reach us:
- Online: covid19.lacounty.gov
- Email: rent@dcba.lacounty.gov
- Phone: (833) 223-RENT (7368)
Incident Report
Our daily report is a high level summary of L.A. County Emergency Operations Center’s COVID-19 disaster efforts. Click here to view.
COVID-19 Digital Communications Guide
LA County’s Joint Information Center has created a digital communications guide to help cities, partners, and stakeholders navigate digital communications in response to COVID-19 and the County’s Safer at Home order. It includes Best Practices, Do’s and Don’ts, Key Messaging, and our Social Media Toolkit, with multi-lingual graphics and messages like the ones seen below.
View our updated COVID-19 Digital Communications Guide.
Access our Social Media Toolkit, here.
You may feel healthy but you can make someone else sick. Protect yourself, protect each other by staying home.. #SaferAtHome #stayhome #covid19
Armenian: Դուք կարող է առողջ եք զգում, բայց կարող եք ուրիշներին վարակել: Պաշտպանեք ինքներդ ձեզ, պաշտպանեք միմյանց տանը մնալով: … #SaferAtHome #stayhome #covid19:
Korean: 스스로 건강하다고 생각할 수 있지만 다른 사람을 병들게 할 수 있습니다. 집에 있는 것으로 자신과 서로를 보호하십시오. #SaferAtHome (집이 더 안전합니다) #stayhome #covid19
Additional Resources
The County of Los Angeles appreciates your continued partnership in responding to COVID-19 questions and needs of residents. For additional information, please visit:
- County of Los Angeles: covid19.lacounty.gov
- County of Los Angeles Public Health: publichealth.lacounty.gov
- California Department of Public Health: cdph.ca.gov
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: cdc.gov
Los Angeles County residents can also call 2-1-1