March 20, 2024, Wednesday
Los Angeles, California. California Civil Rights Department (“CRD”).
How the state government under Gavin Newsom prevents Blacks from getting full and equal housing services.
Re: Johnson / Hi Point 1522, LLC et al.
From: G Johnson (tainmount@sbcglobal.net)
To: susan.davenport@calcivilrights.ca.gov
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Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 11:56 AM PDT
Dear California Civil Rights Department:
- I would be glad to respond to your REQUEST FOR REBUTTAL. First you have to supply me
with a copy of the response of the Respondent. I do not want and cannot use a “summary”. - I don’t know who in the Governor Gavin Newsom’s office hired you, but you do not seem to
comprehend or be able to read English. If you comprehended English, you would know that I
previously—and repeatedly—asked you for an exact copy or transcribed copy of what the
Respondent said. My email of March 14, 2024 at 12:03 pm clearly lays out the questions I need answered before I can proceed with reviewing the Response of the Respondent or any summary
by you. - 42 U.S.C. § 1981 prohibits race discrimination in the making and enforcing of contracts. It prohibits racial discrimination against whites as well as nonwhites. See McDonald v. Santa Fe Trail Transp. Co., 427 U.S. 273, 295 (1976) (Section 1981 was intended to “proscribe discrimination in the making or enforcement of contracts against, or in favor of, any race”). In Runyon v. McCrary. (a) Statement of equal rights All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other.
(b) “Make and enforce contracts” defined
For purposes of this section, the term “make and enforce contracts” includes the making, performance, modification, and termination of contracts, and the enjoyment of all benefits, privileges, terms, and conditions of the contractual relationship.
(c) Protection against impairment
The rights protected by this section are protected against impairment by nongovernmental discrimination and impairment under color of State law.
- Your email and actions behind are impairing my rights. My rental agreement copy has been
forwarded to you. I am entitled to a landlord who acts in a reasonable and good faith manner. I am entitled to an answer (written or otherwise) to my concerns in this matter. You have the
authority to force a written response by the owner to my complaint and you have the authority to forward me a copy of that response; otherwise the CRD is engaged in abuse of authority, abuse of discretion, and acts in an arbitrary, capricious, and unjust manner to favor the Respondent. - Despite the actions of the CRD, it has taken me many years to get this complaint to the
causation stage. The causation stage should have been declared YEARS AGO by the CRD. - An ad online shows “furnished” apartments at this address. I am denied a furnished apartment as a Black male, over the age of 45, with a disability. https://www.apartments.com/1522-hi-point-street-los-angeles-ca/cxtk7be/
- The rent agreement spells out the entitlements to me. The state Unruh Act spells out the
entitlements to me, which includes granting a reasonable accommodation after a request from me, which there have been numerous requests. I have asked the CRD to grant me $4,000 for each day that the owner refuses to supply the requested housing services. - A summary of the Respondent does not provide me with documented evidence of their
position. - The Respondent has previously indicated (Gerst letter) that the current Akuvox system was an “upgrade”. Upgrade means that the keypad and intercom systems were already there for the use of the tenant before May 2023. The question is when is the property owner (or City of Los Angeles) going to supply the instructions to use the Akuvox system? Apparently select white tenants were supplied such instructions in May 2023 but none were supplied to me. The letter and email of agent Michael Gerst is silent on the instructions to use Akuvox or where is the required cell phone and internet to use Akuvox. The CRD has actual and constructive knowledge of this.
- Susan: if I were to call you a whore, and call your mother and father prostitutes, this probably
would not be true and I would have no evidence. Maybe my words would be an interpretation of something you told me or maybe my words would be a summary. I am sure you would think this unfair if I called you such names. So that is the position you put me in. I have the rent agreement on my side and I have the Unruh Act on my side—-and both of those documents are clear statements that can be quoted and don’t need to be “summarized” yet you put me in a position where I am expected to disregard the provisions of the rent agreement and disregard the Unruh act entitlements, and somehow be forced under duress to engage in a “summary” of what the property owner has said. The same as a summary of you and your family members being whores, prostitutes, and criminals. Susan: please provide me with documented written proof of what the Respondent alleges and from the Respondent. - Since you insist on such disparate treatment of me, I attach a FYI copy (not a service copy)
of my claim for damages against the state of California dated March 19, 2024 where I ask for 100 million dollars in damages against you as an individual. - There is nothing in my rent agreement that I have to respond to a summary of CRD’s opinion
of the Respondent. There is nothing in the Unruh Act that requires me to respond to a summary written by the CRD. There is nothing in CRD or HUD regulations that require me to engage with such summary.
All rights reserved.
Geary Juan Johnson
1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles CA 90035
Phone ( )
REFERENCE:
https://lahousingpermitsandrentadjustmentcommission.com/email-to-susan-davenport-at-the-crd/
WordPress Blog: “Email to Susan Davenport at the CRD”
2024-3-19 Sanned CA State Damage Claim.pdf
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On Thursday, March 14, 2024 at 03:59:36 PM PDT, Davenport, Susan@CalCivilRights
susan.davenport@calcivilrights.ca.gov wrote:
Good afternoon,
Attached please find the Request for Rebuttal and Summary of Response letter. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Susie Davenport
Consultant III Specialist | Housing- Los Angeles
Civil Rights Department | http://www.calcivilrights.ca.gov
(Formerly Department of Fair Employment and Housing)
Phone: Mobile: (916) 708-5363 | Toll Free: (800) 884-1684 |Fax: (916) 405-4328
The letter above from the CRD shows how the CRD allows unlawful discrimination to exist.
LA Rent Control (RAC) and Permits (LADBS) 