L.A.'s 100 most problematic rental properties spotlighted in new city database - BERITAJA

In L.A.’s high-stakes rental market, wherever tenants and landlords regularly go to war complete lodging disputes, renters person revenge much than 115,000 complaints to the metropolis Housing Department since 2013.

Now, a caller dashboard shows the worst offenders.

Called the Top 100 Problem Rental Properties, the caller instrumentality launched by City Controller Kenneth Mejia shows the properties pinch the about lodging usurpation cases, arsenic good arsenic their owners. Mejia said he wanted to unit landlords to comply pinch the rule — and unit the metropolis to punish the ones who don’t.

“This task comes astatine a clip erstwhile tenants are reporting harassment and forbidden evictions violating the City’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance, Just Cause for Eviction Ordinance and Tenant Anti‑Harassment Ordinance, but very fewer of the complaints extremity up starring to beardown enforcement aliases existent accountability,” he said successful a statement.

The dashboard includes a hunt motor to find violations tied to circumstantial addresses, arsenic good arsenic a representation showing much than 44,000 properties pinch complaints against them. It documents 55,018 forbidden evictions, 38,876 forbidden rent increases, 32,015 complaints about a simplification of services and 24,179 harassment cases.

The apical offender was Hillside Villa Apartments, a 124-unit analyzable successful Chinatown wherever residents alleged 300% rent hikes aft pandemic-era rent protections expired. In 2024, the metropolis trim a woody to supply $15 cardinal successful subsidized rent. The analyzable had 192 usurpation cases.

Barrington Plaza classed second. In 2023, the owners of the monolithic 712-unit Westside analyzable attempted to evict each azygous resident successful bid to instal occurrence sprinklers and information upgrades. The spot had 166 cases.

AVA Toluca Hills Apartments classed third, though its placement connected the database is partially owed to the sheer number of rentals. The 1,150-unit analyzable adjacent Universal Studios had 113 violations including harassment, unregistered units and non-payment of relocation services for tenants evicted without fault.

“There has ne'er earlier been an uncomplicated measurement for anyone to look up years’ worthy of violations by address,” Mejia said. “Everyone deserves safe, unchangeable and honorable housing.”