Thanks to years of ACCE leader organizing and massive pressure on Los Angeles' City Attorney, the City Attorney's office announced on July 15 the first lawsuit filed under the city's Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance (TAHO). The lawsuit was filed on behalf of tenants living at an apartment complex on Woodlawn Avenue and 43rd Street in south LA. The tenants have been dealing with illegal harassment from their landlord in an effort to get them to vacate their homes to charge higher rents. According to the complaint, the harassment included imposing new charges and fees, interruption of services, and discarding the tenants' personal belongings. On July 21, the tenants, ACCE leaders, coalition partners from Keep LA Housed, and elected officials held a press conference to celebrate the lawsuit filing. ACCE leaders will continue to keep up the pressure to ensure more TAHO lawsuits are filed in the future.

After a two-year lobbying effort by ACCE leaders, partner organizations, and community members, a new traffic light has been installed next to Carver Middle School in South Los Angeles. The campaign to install the light was launched after 12-year-old Carver student Derick Serrano was tragically killed by a motorist in April 2024 as he was trying to cross the busy intersection next to the school. 

Championed by Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas, Alameda County unanimously voted to bar ICE agents from using county property for operations, surveillance, or detentions, the first comprehensive "ICE-free zone" policy of its kind in the Bay Area. This is a direct result ACCE members, our allies, and the community at large showing up and demanding that local government protect its residents.

The new year marks a huge change to Los Angeles City's Rent Stabilization Ordinance. ACCE leaders and our allies won the first update to LARSO in 40 years! The city's annual rent increase cap just got cut in half from 8% to 4%, which will provide relief to thousands of Angelenos struggling to pay rent. This victory is thanks to more than a year of organizing, marching, direct actions, town halls and lobbying city Councilmembers. The new changes go into effect in February.

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.

The Los Angeles City Council in July approved $425.8 million in Measure ULA funds for 11 programs that will provide much needed protections for tenants, and to preserve and create more affordable housing. This expenditure of ULA funds for the 2025-26 fiscal year is the biggest in the program's history since voters approved the "mansion tax" measure in November 2022. These funds come at a crucial time as budgets at the local, state and federal level are being slashed. Thanks to this huge victory, thousands more Angelenos will have access to the assistance they need to stay in their homes.

“We need to protect tenants from ongoing harassment from landlords,” said Maria Briones, a tenant leader for ACCE Los Angeles. “Measure ULA provides the critical source of funding for the City to defend renters from harm.”

In a victory two years in the making, the Tourism Rising campaign ensured that workers in Los Angeles' tourism industry will receive $30 an hour by 2028. ACCE Los Angeles was among the first community organizations to support the effort. The TWR policy has been a part of the Raise the Wages and Lower the Rent platform during our historic tenant and worker solidarity march over the last two years. Thanks to ACCE members' strong presence during two years of coalition meetings, committee meetings, and city council meetings in support of SEIU-USWW and UNITE HERE! Local 11 workers, we can now celebrate this important win! 

Following LA County's approval last summer of the right for tenants facing eviction to get free legal representation, the LA City Council has also now passed a Right to Counsel law. The Council approved the law April 1, by a vote of 14-0. As members of the Right to Counsel coalition, ACCE leaders spent many months giving public testimony at City Council meetings to show support for this important right. In addition to LA County, LA City now joins New York, San Francisco and Philadelphia in establishing this pivotal law to help tenants stay in their homes.