1. In 2016 there was an article by Bianca Barraga at Cured written about ways Los Angeles can do more to get more landlords onboard with allowing pets, have you know about such thing and what happened with this initiation?

The article (which I haven't seen) probably stemmed from a proposal by Councilmember Koretz to form a City task force involving the Housing Department and the Animal Services Department to come up with ideas about increasing opportunities for pet owners to rent apartments.  The task force met periodically over the course of a couple of years, including with representatives of the Humane Society of the U.S. and other interested activists from both the east coast and California.  A number of ideas came out of the process.

2  what are the things thea P Koretz has in place today to get that moving for people giving up pets for a place to live

Coming out of the task force's work, Councilmember Koretz successfully proposed a law that any apartment development project in the City of L.A. that used public funding or financing administered by the Housing Department would have to allow its tenants to have pets.  This covers affordable housing for low-income persons and families and housing for homeless persons  There was not sufficient support for trying to make such a requirement apply to all apartments.  Around the same time (2019), the City's policy relative to homeless shelters changed to require that they also provide accommodations for the companion animals for persons experiencing homelessness.

3  IIs there a task force that is currently working on this situation.

As noted above, the task force has completed its work. Other ideas that came out of that work included having the Department of Animal Services staff meet with apartment owner associations and apartment owners attending Housing Department landlord workshops to provide information on the advantages of allowing tenants to have pets and the kinds of standard practices that could be used to minimize any negative impacts from doing so.  These presentations have been taking place.

Another idea was to make use of a very good publication developed by the Humane Society of the United States in 2017-'18 dealing with the issues related to, and the advantages of, allowing tenants to have pets in apartments.  More attention needs to be paid to taking advantage of this publication.