Tenant activists are urging Los Angeles leaders to make sure that renters facing harassment or eviction can turn to a lawyer for help.
At a news conference Thursday outside City Hall, a coalition of tenant advocates and community activists pressed for the city to move forward with a “right to counsel” ordinance and called on Mayor Eric Garcetti to allocate $10 million to assist tenants in his upcoming budget.That money would go not only to legal aid, they said, but also to education, outreach and emergency payments to help keep struggling renters in their homes.
Activists want the city to guarantee tenants the right to an attorney and subsidize legal services for poor renters who could not otherwise afford them — a system similar to providing public defenders for people accused of crimes. Better-off renters would pay for services on a sliding scale, advocates said.
Tenant groups say those programs have shown results. An analysis by the nonprofit Community Service Society found that tenants in the ZIP codes first targeted under the New York City program were more likely to have an attorney in housing court and that evictions had declined more dramatically than in the rest of the city.
Gagnon said that if the city has money to spare, it should go into emergency rental assistance, not legal aid that could end up stalling justified evictions.
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