Los Angeles Reinstates COVID-Era Policy to Ensure Tenants Can Keep Pets

A dog walks without a leash in a file image. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles City Council voted Jan. 23 to codify and extend a COVID-era policy to protect tenants from being evicted for keeping unauthorized pets in their rental units.

Councilors voted 13–0 to adopt the law, allowing tenants to keep pets they obtained during the height of the pandemic. Councilwomen Katy Yaroslavsky and Heather Hutt were absent during the vote.