Spectrum News: Low-Income Seniors Still at Risk of Homelessness Despite Extended Eviction Moratoriums and Tenant Protections (February 1, 2023)

Roughly 226,000 LA County households are behind on rent, according to the National Equity Atlas. To help stem a wave of evictions, LA City recently adopted a series of tenant protections, but Briones and other low-income seniors are still at higher risk of ending up on the streets according to Patti Prunhuber with the nonprofit, Justice in Aging.

“They are living on fixed incomes, and they are hit especially hard by the rapidly increasing rents that aren’t keeping pace with those incomes and they can’t just work harder to make ends meet,” she said.