Move to a place you can afford or buy your own place. Don't put limits on my personal property.
Schultz, Dennison and Gross say L.A. politicians have long been loath to touch tenants' rights issues. The City Council has shown "no political will to move forward" on a comprehensive plan to preserve rent-stabilized units, Dennison says. Such preservation, which typically aims to discourage the kind of explosion in tear-downs, conversions and big rent hikes seen in Los Angeles, is "a much more controversial issue at City Hall."
Garcetti tells L.A. Weekly that he could do little about it as City Council president — it was up to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to create the political will. Garcetti notes that he authored a 2008 moratorium against tenant evictions during foreclosure, and helped get subsidies to build affordable housing units for gay seniors, families and others.
But Garcetti has been, along with Perry and Greuel, the most avid City Council champion for "redevelopment," the urban-renewal philosophy that between 2000 and 2010 helped drive thousands of working-class people out of Hollywood and East Hollywood in City Council District 13, which Garcetti represents. As reported by the Weekly in "Hollywood's Urban Cleansing," the area suffered a net population loss of 12,878 mostly Latino residents and saw skyrocketing rents while Garcetti acted as District 13's unofficial, powerful, land-use czar.
Rushmore Cervantes, the No. 2 executive at the L.A. Housing Department, insists that his agency has gotten better at sharing critical data about what is unfolding. But in fact, the department still has no method, five years after Laura Chick's warning, to easily ascertain L.A.'s loss of rent-stabilized apartments.
When the Weekly late last year asked the department's policy and planning director, Claudia Monterrosa, how many net units were lost or gained in Hollywood's rent-stabilized housing, she was unable to produce the data though given 17 days.
Greuel, asked if she followed up on Chick's 2007 audit showing City Hall's failure to track affordable rental losses, said via email that she's "looked at various aspects of how the city monitors its housing stock and whether it is efficiently providing affordable housing for Los Angeles."
Paul Hatfield, an accountant and contributor to the blog CityWatchLA.com, who has strongly criticized Greuel's tenure as controller, says Greuel is more concerned about promoting herself than about following up on Chick's warning. Greuel "wants to make a name for herself," he charges, "rather than do the best thing for the city."
As for Greuel's time representing Council District 2, when the area lost 1,534 rent-stabilized units, Greuel responds, "I was a champion for affordable housing and changing city laws to prevent unjust evictions. And I made sure that tenants who were evicted received just compensation."
Contact Patrick Range McDonald at pmcdonald@laweekly.com.
Move to a place you can afford or buy your own place. Don't put limits on my personal property.
Almost all politicians are mutants who perpetualy glad-hand you with one paw while picking your pocket with the other. Aside from Kevin James, these mayoral candidates belong in prison, not in office.
My apologies if this turns out to be basically a repeat of my other comment
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I think we need to face a dismal reality. There was a time when Jews were restricted where they could live and work. We need not relive the lack of consciousness the nation had for centuries as to Blacks, and many people today do not see the situation of women, Hispanics, and poor children. As long as we can keep people out of our conscious thoughts, we feel fine. Ironically, one group that we also exclude from our consciousness is ourselves.
Anglenos have no consciousness that they have been seriously victimized and abused and that their homes have been plundered and their children's standard of living has been stolen. While we glamorized much of LA's criminal history with movies like ChinaTown and LA Confidential, we have been living in a Crimogenic Society whereby we have collectively lost billions of dollars to thieves.
Because we have no consciousness that we have been victimized and abused, we do not know the problem exists. Thus, we elect the same goniffs and mamzers until their term limits expire and then we promote them to some other political office. The modern era of LA Crimogenic Nature began with Riordan when he killed off Bradley's civil service reform so that most department heads are behold to the mayor and not to any code of ethics or honesty or decency. If you want to be a decent Director of Planning, your choice is simple -- quit and go back to San Diego. Honesty and being a department head who is beholden to the Mayor seldom coincide in LA.
The idea that
Garcetti, Greuel, and Perry would have the indecency to run for mayor
shows how low Angelenos have fallen. These people gleefully financially
raped the the city harming everyone except their billionaire
taskmasters like Eli Broad, CIM Group, AEG, Millennium. Look at the
falsified 1-12-2011 LAFD deployment report which simply lied to the
entire city about the "great" response time of the paramedics and
firemen, when a 2005 USA article had quoted the LAFD as saying that the
system was so bad that people were "needlessly dying." The responses
time were worse in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 when the
fraudulent report was written. Nonetheless, the LAFD budget was
slashed, while $52 Million went to billionaire and Riordan cohort, Eli
Board, for a parking garage. More Angelenos needlessly died -- but who
cared? The billionaires got their pound of flesh.
A city, which does not run out of town such cretins who have been responsible for the deaths of so many Angelenos and the theft of billions of tax dollars, will continue to be fleeced of its money while the goniffs and mamzers demand high taxes to pay for roads!!! Is there any service more basic for a city government than to provide roads? In LA, there is something far more important -- that is, giving billions of tax dollars to billionaires and taxing ourselves higher so that the city council can give away billions more of our dollars. Every dollar of new taxes will become an other dollar of tax rebate given to a developer.
Underlying all this theft is something called Accounting Control Fraud -- it's the same way Enron looted itself and the way we had the Crash of 2008. People who are interested in learning how LA has been financially plundered for 20 years, should Google William K. Black and Henry Pontell (UC Irvine).
Elect Garcetti, Greuel or Perry and the corruption will continue. I doubt Angelenos will wake up in time to do anything.
I think we need to face a dismal reality. There was a time when Jews were restricted where they could live and work. We need not relive the lack of consciousness the nation had for centuries as to Blacks, and many people today do not see the situation of women, Hispanics, and poor children. As long as we can keep people out of our conscious thoughts, we feel fine. Ironically, one group that we also exclude from our consciousness is ourselves.
Anglenos have no consciousness that they have been seriously victimized and abused and that their homes have been plundered and their children's standard of living has been stolen. While we glamorized much of LA's criminal history with movies like ChinaTown and LA Confidential, we have been living in a Crimogenic Society whereby we have collectively lost billions of dollars to thieves.
Because we have no consciousness that we have been victimized and abused, we do not know the problem exists. Thus, we elect the same goniffs and mamzers until their term limits expire and then we promote them to some other political office. The modern era of LA Crimogenic Nature began with Riordan when he killed off Bradley's civil service reform so that most department heads are behold to the mayor and not to any code of ethics or honesty or decency. If you want to be a decent Director of Planning, your choice is simple -- quit and go back to San Diego. Honesty and being a department head behold to the Mayor seldom coincide in LA.
The idea that Garcetti, Greuel, and Perry would have the indecency to run for mayor shows how low Angelenos have fallen. These people gleefully financially raped the the city harming everyone except their billionaire taskmasters like Eli Broad, CIM Group, AEG, Millennium. Look at the falsified 1-12-2011 LAFD deployment report which simply lied to the entire city about the "great" response time of the paramedics and firemen, when a 2005 USA article had quoted the LAFD as saying that the system was so bad that people were needlessly dying. The responses time were worse in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 when the report was written. Nonetheless, the LAFD budget was slashed, while $52 Million went to Billionaire and Riordan cohort Eli Board for a parking garage. More Angelenos needlessly died -- but who cared?
A city that does not run out of town such cretins who have been responsible for the deaths of so many Angelenos will continue to be fleeced of its money while the goniffs and mamzers demand high taxes to pay for roads!!! Is there any service more basic for a city government than to provide roads? In LA there is something far more important -- giving billions of tax dollars to billionaires and taxing ourselves higher so that the city council can give away billions more of our dollars. Every dollar of new taxes will become an other dollar of tax rebate given to a developer.
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