Housing Committee · Held

Los Angeles City Council Housing Committee meeting, October 21, 2026

October 21, 2026, 2 p.m. · Updated October 22, 2026

From official records: The Los Angeles City Council's Housing Committee met on Oct. 21, 2026 and approved all eight items on its agenda, each 3-0, its Journal shows. As amended, it recommended that the Council ask the Housing Department for policy recommendations on regulating algorithmic rent-setting software, including registration, tenant notice and fees, and ask for a report and recommendations for an ordinance to reduce or remove breed, weight and size limits on pets in housing that is not publicly funded. It also approved removing six properties in Council Districts 2, 10, 11 and 14 from the Rent Escrow Account Program.

As of October 22, 2026, outcomes for the October 21, 2026 meeting of the Housing Committee of the Los Angeles City Council come from official records posted so far, such as council files, recorded votes and filed statements. Some results may be missing until the full minutes are posted and read.

The agenda, posted Oct. 16, 2026, listed eight items for 2 p.m. in the John Ferraro Council Chamber, Room 340, City Hall. The Clerk’s meeting notice gave the same time and room. Public comment was in person only (agenda).

Committee members since Aug. 31, 2026, per the Council President’s assignment letter: Imelda Padilla (chair), Ysabel Jurado (vice chair) and Traci Park. The agenda listed the same three members. Outcomes below come from the committee’s Journal, which records every item approved 3-0, and from the committee reports posted on each council file.

Routine items: items 1 to 6 are Los Angeles Housing Department reports dated Oct. 9, 2026 on removing six properties from the Rent Escrow Account Program (REAP). They are 9 E. 19th Avenue (Case Nos. 801964 and 619017) and 412 E. Brooks Avenue (Case No. 887662) in Council District 11; 4056 W. 21st Street (Case Nos. 922470 and 899313) and 1307 S. Ridgeley Drive (Case No. 844138) in Council District 10; 5951 N. Fulcher Avenue (Case No. 845755) in Council District 2; and 5923 N. Monterey Road (Case No. 776529) in Council District 14. The agenda marks each “Fiscal Impact Statement: No” and lists no Community Impact Statements (agenda). The Housing Department submitted the first report on Oct. 9, 2026, and the committee scheduled it on Oct. 16 (CF 26-0005-S182). The other files are CF 26-0005-S183, S184, S185, S186 and S187. The committee approved all six Housing Department reports 3-0 (Journal), and each file now carries a Housing Committee report for the Council (for example, CF 26-0005-S182).

7. Regulating algorithmic rent-setting and AI tools used by multifamily housing providers

• What it does: The agenda listed the motion as “relative to policy recommendations related to the regulation of algorithmic rent-setting and artificial intelligence technologies utilized by multifamily residential housing providers operating within the City” (agenda).
• Who brought it: Eunisses Hernandez, seconded by Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Imelda Padilla and Monica Rodriguez, on Oct. 13, 2026 (CF 26-1461, agenda).
• Who it affects: Multifamily residential housing providers in the City that use algorithmic rent-setting or artificial intelligence tools, as the file title describes them (CF 26-1461).
• Neighborhood council positions: None submitted (agenda). The file has one public communication, dated Oct. 13, 2026 (CF 26-1461).
• What happened: The committee approved the motion as amended by Council District 6, 3-0, with Padilla, Jurado and Park voting yes (committee report; amendment). The report recommends that the Council instruct the Housing Department, with the Chief Legislative Analyst, City Attorney, City Administrative Officer and other departments, to report with policy recommendations covering: a registration and disclosure program for providers using algorithmic rent-setting or revenue management software; notice to prospective and current tenants when rents, renewals or occupancy decisions are influenced by such systems; the City’s legal authority to regulate, restrict or prohibit software that relies on nonpublic competitor information; annual registration, licensing or administrative fees, with projected revenues and costs; a special fund for that revenue and its eligible uses, such as eviction prevention, emergency rental assistance and tenant legal services; whether the algorithms could violate fair housing laws; enforcement, audits and penalties; and an analysis of Berkeley’s and West Hollywood’s ordinances, the status of the Department of Justice lawsuit and RealPage’s settlement with the State of Nevada (committee report).
• Money: The report says neither the City Administrative Officer nor the Chief Legislative Analyst has completed a financial analysis (committee report).
• What’s next: The report goes to the Council (committee report).

8. Pet housing policies and landlord restrictions on pets

• What it does: The agenda listed the motion as “relative to pet housing policies and landlord restrictions” (agenda). The file title covers housing affordability, animal welfare and pet housing policies, and the file names CF 18-0350 as a related file (CF 26-0528). That earlier file, on permitting pet ownership by residents of buildings built with public financing, lists Ordinance No. 186228, effective Aug. 25, 2019 (CF 18-0350).
• Who brought it: Eunisses Hernandez, seconded by Bob Blumenfield and Ysabel Jurado, on April 14, 2026 (CF 26-0528).
• Earlier action: The motion was first referred to the Arts, Parks, Libraries, and Community Enrichment Committee and the Housing and Homelessness Committee. The arts and parks committee approved it on June 23, 2026 and sent the file to the Housing and Homelessness Committee (CF 26-0528, transmittal letter). On Aug. 28, 2026 the City Clerk re-referred it to the Arts, Parks, and City Facilities Committee and the Housing Committee under the new committee structure in CF 26-2000 (CF 26-0528).
• Neighborhood council positions: None submitted (agenda). The file has public communications dated June 22 and June 23, 2026 (CF 26-0528).
• What happened: The committee approved the motion as amended by Council District 11, 3-0, with Padilla, Jurado and Park voting yes (committee report). The report recommends that the Council instruct the Housing Department, with Animal Services, the City Attorney, the Chief Legislative Analyst and the City Administrative Officer, to report within 90 days on existing City pet housing policies, including security deposits and non-refundable fees, ways to expand pet-inclusive housing and reduce pet surrenders driven by housing, and the effects on housing stability, shelter intake and the City budget. It asks the City Attorney to report with recommendations for a new ordinance that would reduce or remove breed, weight and size restrictions on pets in housing that is not publicly funded, and instructs the Housing Department to consult tenants, rental housing providers and others, including on insurance and liability (committee report).
• Money: The report says neither the City Administrative Officer nor the Chief Legislative Analyst has completed a financial analysis (committee report).
• What’s next: The report goes to the Council. As of Oct. 22, 2026 the file still listed the motion as pending in the Arts, Parks, and City Facilities Committee as well (CF 26-0528).

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