On Tuesday, the LA County Board of Supervisors approved a $30 million rent relief program and voted to “explore” an eviction moratorium.
The rent relief program will provide up to 6 months of financial assistance, with a maximum of $15,000 per household, to tenants whose homes, business and workplaces were destroyed in the wildfires or whose families have been affected by ICE raids.
In a press conference prior to the votes, motion authors Supervisors Hilda L. Solis and Lindsey P. Horvath urged their colleagues to support the motion, citing worries that the LA’s cost-of-living crisis has been exacerbated by wildfire devastation and immigration detentions that have taken breadwinners from their families…