The LA Planning Commission Should Prioritize Homes for Essential Workers … Over Luxury Hotels Details
At its March 18
th meeting, it will vote on the Hollywood Community Plan, which will set the planning rules for Hollywood for the next 20 years.
According to a recent report by the consulting firm McKinsey, only 14% of Hollywood tenants can afford a market-rate apartment, the largest affordability gap in any Los Angeles neighborhood. In the decade before the last census, Hollywood had lost 12,500 residents to gentrification. Working families, mostly Latino, were displaced by high rents and the conversion of affordable apartments to high-priced condominiums or high-end hotels. Essential workers from cooks to grocery clerks to hospital workers to garbage truck drivers simply can’t afford to live in Hollywood.
“The scope of corruption outlined in this indictment is staggering,” said U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna.
“As the indictment alleges, Huizar, Chan and their network of associates repeatedly violated the public trust by soliciting and accepting numerous cash bribes and other financial benefits, turning Huizar’s City Council seat into a money-making criminal enterprise.”
When a unanimous LA City Council in July 2013 approved skyscrapers atop the 7.0-magnitude Hollywood Earthquake Fault, one could have thought it was a Hollywood movie plot about corrupt politicians running wild. Who could imagine that our elected officials would openly break the law and endanger thousands of lives in the process? Sadly, though, fact was stranger than fiction.
Raymond Chan, Former LA Building & Safety Head, Charged in Indictment Details
“The scope of corruption outlined in this indictment is staggering,”
said U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna. “As the indictment alleges, Huizar, Chan and their network of associates repeatedly violated the public trust by soliciting and accepting numerous cash bribes and other financial benefits, turning Huizar’s City Council seat into a money-making criminal enterprise.”
When a unanimous LA City Council in July 2013 approved skyscrapers atop the 7.0-magnitude Hollywood Earthquake Fault, one might have assumed it was a Hollywood movie plot about corrupt politicians running wild. Who could imagine that our elected officials would openly break the law and endanger thousands of lives in the process? Sadly, though, fact was stranger than fiction.