Local Eviction Controls and Enhanced Voucher Statute Protect Voucher Holders

This NHLP Housing Law Bulletin article from Oct. 2007 details Barrientos v. 1801-1825 Morton, LLC, in which a federal district court granted a permanent injunction allowing 22 assisted tenants to remain in their apartments and orders the owners to comply with the city’s eviction protection ordinance when the owners sought to evict them in order to raise rents. The court also held that HUD regulations permitting owners to evict voucher tenants based on business or economic reasons did not preempt the eviction protections of the Los Angeles Rent Stabilization Ordinance.