LA County Aims to Extend Tenant Protection Program Offering Free Legal Defense

The program, which covers low-income tenants facing eviction, has funding through June 2025. Supervisors want to make it permanent.
LA County Aims to Extend Tenant Protection Program Offering Free Legal Defense
Renters and housing advocates rally to cancel rent and end evictions amid the pandemic in Los Angeles on Aug. 21, 2020. Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images
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Continuing efforts to protect renters, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is working to extend a program providing free legal representation to eligible low-income tenants  facing eviction.

The program proposal, which will return to the board next month for a final vote, will take effect Jan. 1 and expand the existing Stay Housed L.A. program—a partnership between the county, city of Los Angeles and other community organizations to provide tenants with eviction defense.

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