CORRUPTION. CORRUPTION. CORRUPTION. Who cares? “Every year, the City of Los Angeles receives over $100 million from four federal grants to benefit lower-income residents by improving communities with affordable housing, parks, street lighting, services for the homeless, and many other activities.” “In addition to the $709.9 million secured through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s New Starts and Expedited Project Delivery Pilot Programs, the region will also receive $160 million in new federal grant funding through the Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program and the Neighborhood Access and Equity Programs.” The city is prohibited by law from using any of those monies for purposes of illegal discrimination. Courts have held that if one program uses such money as in a discriminatory manner, it subjects the entire city government to a charge of misuse of federal funds. Speaking of misuse of government funds, the city of Los Angeles housing department took over received over 10,000 complaints for harassment by landlords under the city tenant anti harassment ordinance. However, almost none of those complaints resulted in any punishment being taken against landlords. How much federal money was used to process 10,000 complaints? To me that sounds like misuse of federal funds, corruption, as well as racial discrimination, made lawful by the state of California Unruh. Another violation of the state act occurred when the city was recently settled out of court in case that involved disability discrimination by the city government. All of these acts are proof that the city government spends a lot of man hours and money to discriminate against its own citizens and in the process abuses federal funding. As I said in a (May 11, 2016. Case CV 16-03236 (JLS(AJW) lawsuit against the city and another lawsuit against the city, (filed 2/28/2023 case 23STCP00644) this is a pattern and practice of unlawful discrimination by the city government. This is how the city of Los Angeles under mayor Karen Bass engages in abuse of federal tax tax dollars to take away the rights of renters.
State law says very clearly that rent agreements that are for one year or more as in lease agreement must be in writing. Therefore rent agreements that are for a 30 day period or less do not have to be in writing. This is also backed up by the LAMC section 151.02 which describes housing services as “including, but not limited to”and does not in any way say any housing services have to be in writing. My rent agreement, for example, says that housing services are “including, but not limited to”. Therefore housing services cannot be eliminated from a tenant or denied a tenant simply because they are not written into the rent agreement. However, under Mayor Karen Bass, employee Thao N. Tran, and in her documentation to the court, drawn up through the city attorneys office, Bass takes the position that Black tenants are not entitled to housing services unless they are written specifically into the rent agreement. Mayor Bass and the housing department has abused federal funds, and used them to deny Black tenants housing services. Even the state law the state under civil code 51,52 does not require housing services to be written into the rent agreement. This is corruption of the highest level. (Internet: lahousingpermitsandrentadjustmentcommission how mayor Karen Bass and City deny blacks housing services)
The rent agreement of Black tenants writes they are entitled to parking. The rental agreement says they are entitled to maintenance upon reporting such need to the landlord. However, in court papers and city clerk published city agenda communications, Mayor Karen Bass, and Thao N. Tran (CD5) and others argued that the Blacks are not entitled to parking or repairs/parts to a non-working intercom. The city government has admitted that such pattern and practice housing discrimination and denial of services was conducted by the city government over a nine year period. The 2023 petition for writ proceeding also mentioned that the Black tenant has a disability, but that did not cause the city government to offer a reasonable accommodation in the city rent controlled building. No wonder then the city used tax dollars to recently settle for $200 Million dollars a disability lawsuit against the City. The Mayor refuses to recognize state of California law that oral agreements and conduct of the parties is legally valid, and that parking and repairs are entitlement under the rent agreement and LAMC section 151.02 Definition of Housing Services. The LAMC does not give Mayor Bass the authority to arbitrarily deny Black tenants housing services simply because they are not written into the rent agreement. But this is how deep corruption goes in the city government of Los Angeles and much deeper. Remember the story from the city controller that $513, 000 million earmarked for housing was not spent so why is Mayor Bass still asking for federal housing money? “Kenneth Mejia, the city controller of Los Angeles, the most populous city in the western U.S. state of California, found that only 599 million dollars had actually been spent, and an additional 195 million dollars was encumbered, leaving at least 513 million dollars unspent, said the report.” (Source: Google) Thao N. Tran argued by email March 14, 2024, “Landlords are not obligated by law to provide an operating Intercom and gated parking to tenants, therefore our office would not be able to intervene on this matter.” So why should the intercom not be subject to repair? What state law mandates that multifamily buildings across the city must have working intercoms? Which Black tenants in Los Angeles are not entitled to working intercoms? Tran misconstrued the issue as it was was gated parking (which the city authorized) but tandem parking; nevertheless what state law determines (other than the rent agreement) that such buildings must have parking stalls (circa 1972)? Tran and Bass ignored the fact that the landlord advertised to the Internet that each apartment comes with an intercom and tandem parking stall. Bass is corrupt. Thao N. Tran should be fired.
Under Bass’ corrupt leadership: “L.A. politicians ask Trump for $3.2 billion to pay for Olympic transportation projects .Officials are emphasizing the grandeur of the Olympics as a global event and hoping the Trump administration funds public transit. More than $2 billion will be needed to run enough buses to get spectators to and from venues.” “City of Los Angeles Agrees to Pay $38.2M to Resolve False Claims Act Suit for Alleged Misuse of Department of Housing and Urban Development Grant Funds” “LA agrees to record $200 million settlement in disabled housing lawsuit”. (Source: Google). In my own disability lawsuit of sorts, and put before the city, too bad I did not have $50,000 or more to pay a lawyer to help.
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