Los Angeles
could soon usher in a new law that would ban landlords from harassing renters, more than four years after such a measure was first proposed at City Hall.
The proposed ordinance, which advanced through a key committee
on Wednesday, would prohibit landlords from targeting renters in a range of ways, including
threatening tenants with physical harm, telling others about their immigration status, falsely telling renters they have to clear out of a unit, and
failing to follow standards to protect them from dust and asbestos.
It would also ban landlords from retaliating against tenants for organizing an association or union.
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Rep. Marcia Fudge speaks after being nominated HUD secretary by then President-Elect Biden
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WASHINGTON It was around dusk when about 15 of Marcia Fudge’s sorority sisters gathered on the deck of a friend’s house in Warrensville Heights, Ohio.
It had been a tough day. They had attended the funeral of U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, a fellow member of Delta Sigma Theta. Fudge, a close friend and former chief of staff for Tubbs Jones, told them that August day in 2008 that some power brokers had urged her to run for the congressional seat.