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In an effort to ease the housing crisis, Los Angeles officials have proposed legalizing “bootleg” apartments.
Landlords are currently splitting up apartments in order to duplicate the number available for potential renters.
According to the LA Daily News, Councilman Felipe Fuentes led the effort in order to encourage landlords to enforce building codes for these pseudo apartments.
Under the new law, the units would be moderate or low-income and must have existed before Dec. 10, 2015 in order to qualify for legalization.
This is good news for the copious amount of people that fill the city.
Read more at the Daily News.
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