Just Cause for Eviction Ordinance (JCO)
The JCO was passed by the LA City Council in January 2023. The JCO covers most residential properties in the City of Los Angeles that are not regulated by the City’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance (RSO). This also includes single family dwellings. If your property is in the city of Los Angeles, you are most likely covered under the JCO. The JCO limits the reasons as to how you can evict tenants, but it does not change how much you can raise the rents. The reasons for evictions can be split up into two categories: At-Fault and No-Fault.
Tenant is at-fault
- Failure to pay rent
- Failure to cure a violation of the rental agreement
- Creating a nuisance or causing damage to the property
- Using the rental unit for an illegal purpose
- Failure to renew a similar rental agreement
- Failure to provide the landlord with reasonable access to the rental unit
- The person at the end of the lease term is a subtenant not approved by the landlord
Tenant is not at-fault
- The owner or immediate family member will move into the rental unit
- Resident manager will move into the rental unit when required by law or by an affordable housing covenant or regulatory agreement
- Demolition, substantial remodel, permanent removal from the rental market, or conversion to non-residential
- Government order to vacate
- HUD owns and is selling the property
- Residential Hotel being converted or demolished
- Conversion to affordable housing
