{"id":60774,"date":"2023-10-30T11:28:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T18:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=60774"},"modified":"2023-10-30T11:28:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T18:28:59","slug":"delayed-small-property-owner-relief-program-sparks-audit-of-l-a-countys-department-of-business-and-consumer-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=60774","title":{"rendered":"Delayed Small Property Owner Relief Program Sparks Audit of L.A. County\u2019s Department of Business and Consumer Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Oct. 30, 2023, Supervisors Kathryn Barger and Holly J. Mitchell voiced their utter dissatisfaction with Los Angeles County\u2019s delayed roll-out of a small property owner rent relief program approved by the Board of Supervisors on January 24, 2023, and have called for an audit to both examine the process and identify the reasons for those delays.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The approved<a href=\"https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDEsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vZHJpdmUuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS9maWxlL2QvMU5HdDN2Y2FDZFRWMm5mMUk3a196d0tKX1ptTE1xczZnL3ZpZXc_dXNwPXNoYXJpbmcmdXRtX2NvbnRlbnQ9JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX25hbWU9JnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9Z292ZGVsaXZlcnkmdXRtX3Rlcm09IiwiYnVsbGV0aW5faWQiOiIyMDIzMTAzMC44NDg0OTYzMSJ9.WmBZMAIa25F9Ft7WE6ZlFhXnVxl7Re7ifBmMrSJVZTk\/s\/1372357670\/br\/229526547103-l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDEsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vZHJpdmUuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS9maWxlL2QvMU5HdDN2Y2FDZFRWMm5mMUk3a196d0tKX1ptTE1xczZnL3ZpZXc_dXNwPXNoYXJpbmcmdXRtX2NvbnRlbnQ9JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX25hbWU9JnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9Z292ZGVsaXZlcnkmdXRtX3Rlcm09IiwiYnVsbGV0aW5faWQiOiIyMDIzMTAzMC44NDg0OTYzMSJ9.WmBZMAIa25F9Ft7WE6ZlFhXnVxl7Re7ifBmMrSJVZTk\/s\/1372357670\/br\/229526547103-l&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1698775990147000&amp;usg=AOvVaw08KUFbLKDmno7emwdOSzan\">\u00a0motion<\/a>\u00a0that created the rent relief program \u2014 introduced by Supervisor Barger and co-authored by Mitchell \u2014 directed Los Angeles County\u2019s Department of Business and Consumer Affairs (DCBA) to distribute $45 million to mom-and-pop property owners for back rent owed since April 2022 and onward.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Nine months have passed since the motion\u2019s approval, yet neither an application nor even program guidelines have been made available to the public.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cDelaying the disbursement of relief funds to mom-and-pop property owners is simply unacceptable,\u201d said\u00a0<strong>Supervisor Kathryn Barger<\/strong>. \u201cThe motion I introduced included an expectation that this landlord relief program would be launched expeditiously. We\u2019ve missed the mark and small property owners are bearing the brunt of DCBA\u2019s delays. I\u2019ve initiated this audit so that our Board is equipped with an assessment of planning efforts to date and to avoid further delays. The bottom line is that we don\u2019t have the luxury of taking our time to launch relief programs. We expect the property owners to pay their property taxes on time, so the County needs to reciprocate and quickly step up in times of need. I expect nothing less.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cSupport with paying back rent is an urgent issue facing tenants and mom-and-pop landlords in my district and across the County,\u201d said\u00a0<strong>Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cIt has been almost a year since the Board approved the motion to create a Small Property Owner Relief program to equitably provide financial assistance to qualifying landlords that have been hit hardest by the pandemic. Every day we wait, more Angelenos are being evicted or becoming at risk of being evicted. Our shared constituency is counting on us to get this done, and we must do all we can to prevent more residents from being displaced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Los Angeles County\u2019s Chief Executive Officer is conducting the audit and the results are expected within two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 30, 2023, Supervisors Kathryn Barger&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60775,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60774\/revisions\/60775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}