Legal aid and rental assistance programs that have helped thousands of Angelenos avoid eviction could abruptly end later this month because the L.A. City Attorney has refused to extend a contract with the city’s lead service provider, according to tenant advocates.

The city has been funding Stay Housed L.A. — a consortium of local tenant aid organizations — for the past four years. But the group’s contract with the city is set to expire on June 30.

In April, the City Council voted to extend that contract another five years for a total of nearly $34 million. Mayor Karen Bass signed off on the plan on May 1.

But last week, City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto informed city housing officials she would not approve the deal, according to tenant advocates involved in the contract.