As LA Burns, community organizers race to prevent a wave of evictions

Los Angeles Tenants Union is calling for an eviction moratorium and a rent freeze.

Lupita Limón Corrales , an organizer with the union, says the city council's delay on rent-hikes is "unsurprising" She says it's "a total failure of our government to act with the urgency needed to save lives".

The Food Not Rent campaign was launched to encourage people to hold on to their rent money.

A lot of the city stopped paying rent either out of necessity because they just didn’t have the money, or in solidarity with neighbors.

The city did put protections into place like a moratorium on eviction.

The LA Tenants Union is responding with immediate mutual aid and letting people know in their languages about accurate, life-saving information.

In the coming weeks and months , as the emergency mutual aid gives way to the longer, less acute crisis, what we’ll need to do is mobilize around demands for a total eviction moratorium and a rent freeze.