Council Shouldn’t Manage Property
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The city of Los Angeles, led by Councilman Ferraro and pushed by councilmen Yaroslavsky and Alatorre, has decided to become landlord and business manager for developers who can’t manage their own property.
This is the same City Council that helped create the homeless problem in the first place by letting affordable housing and older, lower-rent apartments be torn down and replaced with higher-cost condominiums and high rentals, the same City Council that doesn’t know how to manage our budget and that increased the homeless by cutting many necessary programs.
It is evident Ferraro’s aide doesn’t know the first thing about evicting a tenant when she says the city will assume the responsibility of evicting them. It could cost thousands of dollars and take six months to a year or more to accomplish.
It comes down to the old love affair between the city and developers. This is a big cop-out, to pass the buck on an issue that the city has created and failed to solve, to get the taxpayers once again to foot the bill for another ill-conceived program.
Let the developers fix their own property and rent it out until they are ready to build.
BOB CARCIA
North Hollywood
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