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The LA County Fire Department's Sirens of Silence program is raising awareness about people living on the autism spectrum with a newly painted lifeguard tower in Redondo Beach.

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End of COVID-19 Tenant Protection Resolution

The COVID-19 Tenant Protections Resolution applicable Countywide, expired on March 31, 2023. The expiration of the Resolutions means residential tenants (including mobile home space renters) must resume making normal rent payments each month to avoid being evicted. The expiration also means that most evictions may resume as normal unless permanent tenant protections apply.

While the Resolution has expired, there are some protections that survived the expiration of the Resolution and are as follows:?

• Affirmative defense to eviction for residential tenants (including mobile home space renters) who utilized the County?s non-payment of rent protections for rent past due owed between July 1, 2022 and March 31, 2023.?
• Tenants who qualified for the County?s nonpayment of rent protections (and notified their landlord within seven (7) days of rent being due) have up to 12 months to repay past due rent.
• Tenants unable to repay past due rent during the Resolutions Protections Period or failed to comply with the terms of a payment plan may not be evicted.
• Tenants still within the repayment period, will continue to be protected against evictions for No-Fault eviction reasons.
• Beginning April 1, 2023, landlords are required to serve tenants with a written 30-day notice prior to evicting based on nonpayment for rent that accrued between July1, 2022 and March 31, 2023.
• Residential tenants (including mobile home space renters) who housed unauthorized pets and/or occupants due to COVID-19 who began living in the unit between March 1, 2020 and January 20, 2023, are subject to the following protection:
• Beginning April 1, 2023, tenants must receive a 30-day written notice to correct violation before they can be evicted based on the continued presence of the unauthorized pet/occupant.
• Residential tenants (including mobile home space renters) will continue to have anti-harassment and retaliation protections during the Resolutions protection periods.

?Visit?www.stayhousedla.org?for more information.

At Your Service

Grant Opportunity: Health Food Kickstarter Project

The Healthy Food Kickstarter ARP Program has officially launched! Kickstarter program will provide grants of $20,000 (new projects) or $200,000 (expansion of existing projects) to non-profits and private/for-profit enterprises to support projects that provide affordable, fresh, healthy food options to the County?s most food insecure communities in order to strengthen and contribute to a more equitable, post-pandemic food distribution system. Kickstarter aims to address and alleviate historic food insecurity further compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic in Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) populations, low to moderate income individuals and families, and those living in County-identified Target Communities.?

For more information and to apply for this grant opportunity, visit?csuinc.org/kickstarter.

Out and About

Marina Culture Jam

Photo Finish

Photo: Los Angeles County / Mayra Beltran Vasquez

Spring at Descanso Gardens

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