Tenants and community members are not being let inside to give public comments because council chambers are full! We’re asking tenants to flood the lines and give comment via ☎️ Use our toolkit for talking points: bit.ly/klahtoolkit

Celebrating Renter’s Day!!! We heard from tenants, CM’s Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez Councilmember Nithya Raman Hugo Soto-Martínez and are headed to make public comment! #KeepLaHoused

Public comment is finally starting! Sadly, many tenants and community members who waited to give comment had to leave because they had to go back to work. LA City Council we need you to do better, we refuse to be silenced!

Tenants have been waiting outside for hours to give public comment and many of them have jobs and families they need to go back to. Our livelihoods are on the line😡Rent is out control, tenants are struggling with rent debt, and tenants are facing harassment! KEEP LA HOUSED NOW!

Hundreds of tenants are gathered on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall on Renters’ Day to say, we demand housing for everyone!

KEEP LA HOUSED! #rentersday #KeepLAHoused

This morning we’re at City Hall saying YES to rent debt forgiveness, YES to stronger rent control, and YES to social housing. 🏡✊🏽 #CommunityPower #RentersDay2024

✊We’re out in front of LA City Council for the Renters’ Day Rally! Come give public comment in support of strong tenant protections including rent control and a codified Right to Counsel!
Keep LA Housed’s toolkit below 👇
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Happening tomorrow!

Tomorrow is the day! Can we count on you to get loud for tenant rights?! Take action with us by giving public comment in person, by phone, or online using our toolkit 👉🏾 bit.ly/klahtoolkit

Happening tomorrow!

The good news: Mayor Karen Bass is including #MansionTax funding in the city budget.

The bad news: it’s not enough.

We built a tool to tell City Council why we need to do more to spend the over $200 million we’ve raised to help renters and seniors stay in their homes.

In this @LAtimes article, #TenantAdvocates from Strategic Actions for a Just Economy reflect on the recent findings from #UCLALuskin which reports that nearly 4 in 10 renters in LA County worry about facing #Eviction and losing their home. Read the full article to learn more: libhill.co/lat-renter-saje

To win stronger RSO protections WE NEED YOU to tell your councilmember to support them! Use this link to contact your councilmember and urge them to support the Keep LA Housed LARSO Formula: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-y… #LARSO2024

Somos Familia Valle Tenants Together Social Eco Education Coal for Eco Surv LAANE LTSC Reclaim Our Schools LA LA CAN United Teachers Los Angeles AAPI Equity Alliance UNITE HERE Local 11 Safe Place for Youth Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust CIELO South Asian Network (SAN) SCOPE Beverly-Vermont CLT Latinx Equality Alliance California Immigrant Policy Center Catalyst California Inclusive Action for the City Community Coalition KIWA California Latinas for Reproductive Justice ACT-LA The TransLatin@ Coalition Advancing Justice - AAJC Self Help Graphics & Art Long Beach Residents Empowered Housing NOW! USC Gould Law UCLA Labor Center SEIU 721 Physicians for Social Responsibility- Los Angeles Mijente 🐜🐜🐜 Housing Rights Center UNIDAD CLEAN Carwash Worker Center IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS LA City Council will decide whether to change LARSO, and more than **80 orgs** have joined the Keep LA Housed Coalition to demand stronger rent control! We are calling for 4 important revisions to LARSO: #LARSO2024

Somos Familia Valle Tenants Together Social Eco Education Coal for Eco Surv LAANE LTSC Reclaim Our Schools LA LA CAN United Teachers Los Angeles AAPI Equity Alliance UNITE HERE Local 11 Safe Place for Youth Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust CIELO South Asian Network (SAN) SCOPE Beverly-Vermont CLT Latinx Equality Alliance California Immigrant Policy Center Catalyst California Inclusive Action for the City Community Coalition KIWA California Latinas for Reproductive Justice ACT-LA The TransLatin@ Coalition Advancing Justice - AAJC Self Help Graphics & Art Long Beach Residents Empowered Housing NOW! Evictions have returned to pre-pandemic levels w/ 71,429 notices filed with the Housing Dept between Feb-Nov 2023. The overwhelming majority were filed for nonpayment of rent. A USGAO study found that a $100 median rent increase was associated with a 9% increase in homelessness.

Somos Familia Valle Tenants Together Social Eco Education Coal for Eco Surv LAANE LTSC Reclaim Our Schools LA LA CAN United Teachers Los Angeles AAPI Equity Alliance Rent increases compound every year (this year’s increase is based on last year’s rent) so these small numbers really add up. If landlords were allowed to raise rent 8% every year (the current LARSO max), then rent would *double* in 9 years! #LARSO2024

The 3% min increase means the city guarantees LLs can always raise rent, even if inflation is lower than that. Inflation has been lower than 3% for 23 of the past 30 years– so housing prices have skyrocketed and landlords have been raking in extra profit at renters’ expense.

Somos Familia Valle Tenants Together Social Eco Education Coal for Eco Surv LAANE LTSC Reclaim Our Schools LA LA CAN United Teachers Los Angeles AAPI Equity Alliance UNITE HERE Local 11 Safe Place for Youth Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust CIELO South Asian Network (SAN) SCOPE Beverly-Vermont CLT Latinx Equality Alliance California Immigrant Policy Center Catalyst California Over 60% of LA households are renters and more than half are rent burdened or extremely rent burdened, meaning they spend more than 30% or 50% of their income on rent. The pandemic made the housing and homelessness crisis worse and tenants have still not recovered. #LARSO2024

Somos Familia Valle Tenants Together Social Eco Education Coal for Eco Surv LAANE LTSC Reclaim Our Schools LA LA CAN United Teachers Los Angeles AAPI Equity Alliance UNITE HERE Local 11 Safe Place for Youth Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust CIELO South Asian Network (SAN) SCOPE Beverly-Vermont CLT Latinx Equality Alliance California Immigrant Policy Center Catalyst California Landlords are also allowed a one-time 10% rent increase for each new person joining a unit. That includes family or friends in need and also every new child after the 1st born. Even if the person moves out the raise often isn’t removed. Other cities prohibit this. #LARSO2024

Somos Familia Valle Tenants Together Social Eco Education Coal for Eco Surv LAANE LTSC Reclaim Our Schools LA LA CAN United Teachers Los Angeles AAPI Equity Alliance UNITE HERE Local 11 Safe Place for Youth Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust CIELO South Asian Network (SAN) SCOPE Beverly-Vermont CLT Latinx Equality Alliance California Immigrant Policy Center Catalyst California On top of that, the current LARSO formula allows landlords to bump your rent more if they  pay for gas or electric utilities (1% for each). That’s why the currently allowed increase is 4% (just rent) - 6% (+ utilities). #LARSO2024