Note: This is an editorial. Update writer’s personal opinion.

Supposedly, tenant and landlord groups are uniting to accomplish legalizing illegal rental units. LA Times had article on such.

Update is totally against such action. Update feels tenants are being led to the slaughter by landlords with an agenda. If units are legalized, the “secret” aura will be removed and tenants, mark my word, your rents will go up and/or you might find your unit gone.

It will not increase the number of rental units.

If bootlegged units were legalized, the units that are unsafe and do not meet building code would be shut down. Legalization might cost the owner many coins to bring a unit up to standards and he may not want to do such. So that unit would be off the market. Actually, legalization of the units will take many units off the market because bringing them up to code would not be possible or feasible. Thus fewer units. Fewer units, more demand results in higher rents.

Just one example of what it would do to one type zoning. Single family areas would soon find their property values lowered with the legalization of the mother-in-law units, the breakaways. Who buys a home in a single-family zoned neighborhood only to live next to a duplex without proper parking, or a triplex without proper parking? Parking would be only one of the problems. Think of noise, traffic.

This is chaos in the making and sounds like an agenda for a landlord or an agenda for a group trying to unite the tenants and landlords for a power play. Tenants beware. They come in sheep’s clothing.

An answer is to rezone certain areas for more density. There is a reason for zoning.