Los Angeles renters now have 12 months to settle back rent

[Ray Johnson]

Last night the Mayor signed new Renters protections that the LA City Council passed. This will now allow LA renters up to 12 months to settle back rent for Residential tenants, and 3 months for Commercial tenants, before a landlord can take ANY action.

Does anyone have the fine print on this new Renters protection? All I see is it says residential renters have 12 months to catch-up or "Settle" on ANY missed rent.

Does that mean they can go without paying a single dollar over the next 12 months before a landlord can take any action?

I guess if a tenant decides to pay One dollar ($1) a month for the next 12 months, the landlord gets to collect a whole $12 for the year of income.

LA is out of control with the backlash against landlords.

[Ray Johnson]

@Brad L I went to the Mayors website to look at the details of the issue. It says the new measure gives residential tenants 12 months following the "expiration" of the local emergency period to repay any missed rent.

What I got from that is
1) A tenant can go without paying rent during the "Emergency Period"
2) Los Angeles will announce when the emergency period ends, and the 12 month clock will start at that point.
3) The landlord cannot take any action against a tenant until after the 12 month period, should they not make up the unpaid rent that occurred during the defined emergency period.

Now I get what you are saying, If this emergency period goes for 3 months, lets say until June, At month 4 (July), the tenant begins paying rent in July for the month of July, then the tenant has up to 12 months to repay the missed 3 months of rent (Apr. May, Jun).

That makes much more sense. The local news outlets this morning were spreading some tenant friendly propaganda. Making it sound like due to COVID-19, tenants will have up to 12 months to catch-up "ANY" missed rent payments.
This isn't as bad as what the media was making it out to be.