LA County Votes Nearly $30M Rent Relief for Families Hit by Fires, ICE Raids
This article was first published by the nonprofit newsroom LA Public Press on September 16, 2025 and is republished here with permission.
On Tuesday, the LA County Board of Supervisors approved a $29.8 million rent relief program and voted to “explore” an eviction moratorium.
The rent relief program will provide up to 6 months of financial assistance, with a maximum of $15,000 per household, to tenants whose homes, business and workplaces were destroyed in the wildfires or whose families have been affected by ICE raids.
In a press conference prior to the votes, motion authors Supervisors Hilda L. Solis and Lindsey P. Horvath urged their colleagues to support the motion, citing worries that the LA’s cost-of-living crisis has been exacerbated by wildfire devastation and immigration detentions that have taken breadwinners from their families.
“Now that the Supreme Court has given ICE the authority to indiscriminately stop and arrest people, we know that our immigrant communities are going to be at risk even more with what our immigrant communities face,” Solis said at the press conference. “Some are staying home, some are having to forgo their jobs.”
In two weeks, the Office of the County Counsel will report back findings to the board with options for halts on evictions or other protections for renters.
“Rent relief without protections leaves families exposed,” Horvath said. “Protections without rent relief leaves them drowning in debt. We need both. We need them together. And we need them now.”
