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The Rental Housing Inspection Habitability Program affects all rental housing properties in ππππππππππππππ LA County with mandatory routine inspection once every four years $86 fee/unit
LA County Board of Supervisors 4/16/24 meeting Agenda item #2Β
Hearing on Ordinances Amending County Code, Title 8 - ConsumerΒ Protection, Business and Wage RegulationsΒ Β
Revised hearing on ordinances for introduction, amending County Code,Β Title 8 - Consumer Protection, Business and Wage Regulations Code,Β
- by adding Chapter 8.53 - Rental Housing Inspection Habitability Program,Β Β
- which creates a new systematic inspection program that requires all rental housing properties within the unincorporated areas of the County to beΒ Β
- routinely inspected once every four years,Β
- with an annual program feeΒ amount of $86, per unit per year, andΒ
- which creates a new systematic inspection program that requires all rental housing properties within the unincorporated areas of the County to beΒ Β
- by adding Chapter 8.55 - Rent Escrow Account Program (REAP),Β
- whichΒ provides for a determination of rentΒ reductions for rental housing properties that do not timely correct violationsΒ of habitability standards,Β
- along with an administrative fee of $137 per rentalΒ housing unit per month placed into REAP;
- authorize the Director of Consumer and Business Affairs to execute one or more, competitively solicited contract(s), at a combined total amount of $486,000 per year, for
- the provision of tenant and landlord outreach,Β
- training and education services under the REAP ordinance,Β
- effective upon the date of execution through June 30, 2028, with an option to extend thereafter for two additional one-year terms; andΒ
- authorize the Directors of Public Health and Consumer and Business Affairs to execute one or more competitively solicited contract(s), or amend existing service contracts related to the implementation of the ordinances,
- effective upon date of execution through June 30, 2025, with contract maximum obligations not to exceed $300,000 per service contract,Β
- funded by program fees and/or budgeted support for development and start-up costs for the first year of implementation.Β
- whichΒ provides for a determination of rentΒ reductions for rental housing properties that do not timely correct violationsΒ of habitability standards,Β
(Departments of Public Health and Consumer and Business Affairs) (Continued from the meeting of 3-12-24) (24-0831)
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