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Tenants urge enforcement after sale of former Skid Row Housing Trust buildings; council approves related agenda items
Summary
Tenants and tenant advocates told the City Council that multiple buildings formerly part of the Skid Row Housing Trust are in substandard condition after sale to private owners; the council voted on the set of posted items (1, 2 and 15–23) and the clerk recorded 13 ayes.
Tenants from buildings formerly managed by the Skid Row Housing Trust, tenant organizers and attorneys told the City Council that multiple SRO hotels and formerly trusted buildings are in poor condition after being sold to private owners. Speakers described infestations, broken security, inoperative elevators and plumbing, and said the city must enforce tenant protections and repair requirements.
“We don’t have any security. Our units are subpar, rats, roaches,” said Olushe Banjo, identifying himself as a resident of CD 14 and a member of LA CAN. “Please support the anti‑harassment tenant bill,” he said.
Corey Patterson, a resident of the Lincoln Building, said his building still had rats and roaches, “a nonworking fire system” and…
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