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ACCE LA Wins Reforms to Code Enforcement Program

 

ACCE Los Angeles in July 2025 won important new changes to the city's Systematic Code Enforcement Program (SCEP) that aims to make landlords more accountable for habitability problems in their buildings. The LA City Council instructed the LA Housing Department (LAHD) to enact several changes, including providing information to tenants in their language, requiring photographs be taken before and after completion of repairs, and extending the Tenant Habitability Plan to cover temporary relocation. These reforms are a result of ACCE members' public comments, as well as ACCE's years long organizing the Chesapeake Apartment complex. LAHD has 130 days to report how they will implement the reforms.