“The Los Angeles city government fights very hard to bury corruption and continue to deny Black tenants housing services”
Letter to the Editor
Re “Speculative Blight- And the demise of the old searching for profit” by James Preston Allen, November 9, 2023 Editorial. I agree “what is needed is more affordable spaces for both work and living” and “that could have been avoided if the developers listened to the community”. The phrase “criminal scoundrel developer” brings to mind criminal scoundrel councilpersons.
Is it not criminal that we spend millions on the homeless problem yet the homeless number less than 3% of the total population of Los Angeles of almost four million people? In many cases the low and moderate income are denied housing services by collusion and causation of some discriminatory property owners and corrupt government employees; to see the effects of this linkage, the city clerk’s office has made public many communications that claim corruption of city employees. Source: LACityClerkConnect at https://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm. council file no. 23-1122 communication 10/30/2023; file 20-0407-S1 p. 45-82 communication 10/30/2023; council file no. 23-1200-S151 communication 11/13/2023.
The Los Angeles city government fights very hard to bury corruption and continue to deny Black tenants housing services. What is needed is more attention by the city government to the corruption within that pretty much the HUD and the Justice Department couldn’t care less about.
G. Juan Johnson
Los Angeles
(Editor: This is an unpublished November 16 2023 letter. But it appears in numerous links posted to the Internet by the Los Angeles City Clerk’s office. )
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