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The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday, October 21, 2011 to increase rent control and code enforcement fees. More importantly the Council voted down, 8 to 5, a proposal by Council Members Richard Alarcón and Ed Reyes to evenly divide the code enforcement fee to alleviate the financial burden on tenants who, for the most part, can least afford to pay the full and increased fee. While tenants groups were not opposed to the fee increases, which will prevent a deficit and enable the Housing Department to maintain its current operations and services, they were opposed to the inequity in who pays the Systematic Code Enforcement Programs (SCEP) fees. Currently, landlords can pass on the full SCEP fee to tenants. The tenant groups were urging that the SCEP fee be split 50/50 between landlords and tenants similar to the Rental Unit Registration fee. |
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