Los Angeles City Housing Law:
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE

Relocation assistance is required when a landlord evicts for his or her own occupancy, spouse, parents, children of the landlord or for a resident manager.
This assistance is also required for eviction for Major Rehabilitation, Demolition as well as orders from a governmental agency to vacate due to a violation of the Los Angeles Municipal Code or any other provision of law. If the building is not in compliance with a governmental agency due to hazardous conditions caused by a natural disaster or act of God, then relocation assistance is not required.
When a unit is permanently removed from the rental housing market, relocation assistance is required to be paid.

Monetary relocation assistance is available to eligible and qualified tenants.

Qualified tenants are those who are 62 years or older, handicapped, or disabled, or who have one or more minor dependent children.Qualified tenants are entitled to receive $5,000.
All other tenants are eligible, and they are entitled to receive $2,000. These amounts are paid per unit, not per tenant.

The entire fee shall be paid to a tenant who is the only tenant. in a rental unit.
- If a rental unit is occupied by two or more tenants, any one of whom is a qualified tenant, then each tenant of the unit shall be paid a pro-rata share of the $5,000 fee.
- If a rental unit is occupied by two or more tenants, none of whom is a qualified tenant, then each tenant of the unit shall be paid a pro-rata share of the $2,000 fee.
- In no event shall the landlord be liable to pay more than $5,000 to all tenants residing a unit in which at least one qualified tenant lives, or to pay more than $2,000 to all tenants residing in a unit in which no tenant is a qualified tenant.
The Ordinance requires timely relocation assistance payments.
- Payment shall be made within 15 days of serving of a written 30-day notice of eviction; however
- The landlord may, at the landlord's sole discretion and at the landlord's cost, establish an escrow account for the tenant instead of the payment described in 2a above.

Landlords are exempt from paying relocation assistance when evicting a resident manager to replace him/her with another resident manager.
Landlords are exempt when the tenant received actual written notice, prior to entering into a tenancy agreement, that an application to subdivide the property or convert the building to condominiums, a stock cooperative, or community apartment project was on file with the City.
Landlords are exempt from paying relocation assistance should they be required to utilize the 11th legal reason for eviction due to hazardous conditions caused by a natural disaster or act of God.