The deadline for Los Angeles renters to repay back rent that was missed during the first 19 months of the COVID-19 pandemic has come and gone.
has come and gone. And with the expiration of the county's eviction moratorium, officials across the city fear a rise in the homeless population.
According to Zillow, the average monthly rent in Los Angeles is nearly $3,000 a month, a 75% jump since the pandemic began."It's very hard for folks who are barely making it," said Jeffrey Uno, the managing attorney at the foundation's Eviction Defense Center. In Los Angeles County alone, roughly 75,000 people — about the population of Scranton, Pennsylvania — have no permanent housing, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.
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