The Los Angeles City Council voted to strengthen tenant anti-harassment protections by updating the TAHO ordinance, allowing tenants to sue landlords for violations. The new law entitles successful tenants to triple damages, minimum penalties, and attorney’s fees, redefining harassment as landlord conduct causing harm. Landlord advocates opposed the law, while tenants supported it, citing harassment and unfair rent increases as major issues.
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