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Scores of tenants urge council to strengthen rent‑stabilization rules amid rising rents
Summary
Multiple speakers during public comment urged the council to adopt updates to the Rent Stabilization Ordinance (ARSO/LARSO) including lower allowable rent increases and limits on pass‑throughs for services and additional occupants.
During the public‑comment period on April 30, a substantial group of tenants and tenant organizers urged the Los Angeles City Council to adopt stronger rent‑stabilization protections. Speakers, identifying themselves as residents, tenant organizers and representatives of tenant groups, asked councilmembers to support proposals sometimes referenced as Keep L.A. House or Kipeligh House that would tighten the Rent Stabilization Ordinance (ARSO/LARSO) and limit annual rent increases.
Speakers asked the council to adopt a cap that would limit yearly rent increases to roughly 3 percent (or to tie increases more tightly to a lower percentage of CPI), to ban increases tied to additional occupants or pass‑throughs for services, and to adopt other tenant protections. Commenters said that during the moratorium, evictions fell but that after the moratorium ended eviction filings have returned to pre‑pandemic levels.
Several community members said they had attended multiple meetings and that district offices had not always been present for gatherings; speakers pressed councilmembers to engage with constituents, attend community meetings, and deliver stronger protections.
Tenant organizers and residents said they had petitions with hundreds of signatures and asked staff how to deliver them to council offices. The council acknowledged the comments and the organizers’ requests; no ordinance vote occurred at this meeting on the ARSO updates, but the public comments were recorded for council consideration.
