Posted on 04/01/2025
The City Council has approved a report from the Housing and Homelessness Committee, along with an ordinance to codify the Right to Counsel Program administered by the City of Los Angeles Housing Department.
Tenants who cannot afford legal representation often fail to contest eviction notices, even when those notices are unlawfully issued. Consequently, many eviction actions result in default judgments against tenants who might have successfully argued their cases in court if they had legal representation. The ordinance will provide tenants earning less than 80 percent of the area’s median income, who are facing eviction, with access to free legal representation in court. This initiative is made possible by Measure ULA, also known as the “mansion tax,” which was approved in 2022.