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HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT-Since 2018, when Proposition 10 sought to expand rent control in California, rent control movements have only gained momentum throughout the United States.
Most recently, local officials in California, Minnesota, and New Jersey have considered implementing rent control at the urging of activists. With a nationwide housing affordability crisis only worsening due to wildly inflated rents, it’s no surprise that Americans want to finally rein in predatory landlords.
“Our neighbors are telling us they are getting forced out of their homes because they can’t afford unregulated rent hikes,” said Minneapolis City Council Member Jeremiah Ellison last month. “The data is telling us that our most vulnerable communities are suffering the most.”
EASTSIDER-Today’s tale involves a stakeholder named Richard Hopp.
Mr. Hopp, for reasons of his own, decided to check out all of the City of Los Angeles websites including those of the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment and 99 Neighborhood Councils. He was looking for broken hyperlinks (link rot) on the DLANC website (the Downtown LA Neighborhood Councils.)
Anyhow, Mr. Hopp started checking out the awesome new website for broken hyperlinks, aka “link rot” in the trade. Shockingly, he discovered a whole lot of them, and then had the temerity to contact the Neighborhood Council, asking that they fix the problem.
So ok, why Mr. Hopp was interested in doing this is his own business. I am unaware of any law or statute which makes it a crime to check out hyperlinks and look for broken links. In fact, my occasional perusing of EmpowerLA’s efforts with their own website would indicate that anything they do in this area needs adult supervision.
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LA West Valley Animal Shelter to Reopen, but Pets and Strays Need Appointments Details
ANIMAL WATCH-On February 18, 2021, Los Angeles Animal Services General Manager Brenda Barnette (photo above) submitted a brief two-page letter to Councilman Paul Koretz and the City Council, abruptly revising her recent reconstitution proposal, Long Term Plan for the West Valley Animal Shelter, and reinstating the shelter s original purpose of serving and protecting the lost, abandoned and unwanted dogs, cats and other animals in West Valley communities.
This was announced after months of GM Barnette s bully tactics to deprive the West Valley communities of a critical municipal animal shelter for which they pay taxes, and it would have left 40% (260 square miles) of the city of Los Angeles and over 1.77 million residents and their pets with only one animal shelter, the smaller East Valley Animal Shelter in Van Nuys.