Last month, the L.A. city council voted to protect renters from eviction if they adopted a pet during the pandemic that violated the terms of their lease.
The decision brought a sigh of relief to Angelenos who added furry friends to their homes at the height of COVID-19 isolation, and calmed the nerves of overwhelmed shelter administrators dreading a wave of surrendered pets after the expiration of L.A.’s pandemic eviction protections.
However, housing rights advocates say renters in the city shouldn’t count on this protection enforcing itself. They still need to take one additional step to make sure they and their animals are safe from eviction: submit some sort of notice to their landlord.
Javier Beltran, deputy director of the L.A.-based Housing Rights Center, said, “The city council — when they passed this ordinance — made it a requirement that tenants submit some sort of notice to their landlord.”
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