The city of Los Angeles will soon open a dedicated online portal for small landlords to apply for rental assistance.  

The portal is intended for rental property owners with 12 or fewer units and is set to launch on Oct. 23. 

The forthcoming landlord portal comes on the heels of the program’s tenant application phase, which closed its doors on Oct. 2.  

Funded by an $18.4 million allocation from Measure ULA, the program is part of the city’s broader strategy to mitigate the financial stress experienced by low-income tenants due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest rental assistance effort marks the fourth time the city has offered rental aid since the pandemic’s onset. 

“That will be an opportunity for landlords whose tenants may not have applied in the first phase to submit their application and then the program will review the landlord’s eligibility and invite the landlord’s tenants to also apply,” said Anna Ortega, assistant general manager of the L.A. Housing Department, as reported in a City News Service article.