Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says Black tenants not entitled to housing Services

August 17, 2024

LOS ANGELES.

Mayor Karen Bass spends a lot of time on pages 3,4,5,6 defending her position stating that the RAC (Rent Adjustment Commission) has authority to promulgate regulations regarding the City harassment ordinance; Mayor Karen Bass has not provided one shred of evidence that the Housing Department (LAHD) has the authority to enforce the harassment ordinance; nor does Mayor Karen Bass claim the RAC and LAHD are one and the same; the Mayor Karen Bass pretty much ignores what Petitioner has said about the Ordinance.

Mayor Karen Bass alleges that she determined Petitioner did not sustain any reduction in housing services, pertaining to tenant harassment, claimed inoperable Intercom, or lack of tandem (two car) parking.” Mayor Karen Bass‘s position is not based on the evidence because it admits Housing did not conduct an investigation, did not question witnesses, did not conduct a hearing or trial, did not enter the unit to verify the intercom, and completely ignores did it investigate that parking for two cars was reduced to parking for one car; the Mayor Karen Bass has admitted its abuse of discretion, failed to proceed in the manner required by law, undertook an agency action that was arbitrary capricious or entirely lacking in evidentiary support or contrary to established public policy, and was unlawful or procedurally unfair, and the Mayor Karen Bass housing department did not give proper notice as to the petitioners remedy rights under CCP section 1094.6 for the RSO complaints other than CE273371, as supplemented.

Petitioner has the right to seek redress of his grievances and the City Mayor Karen Bass is liable to take action; ——and the Mayor Karen Bass claims the City is liable to take action against housing discrimination——so this is another false statement by the Mayor Karen Bass for purposes of “actual fraud, corruption, and intentionally to cause harm”.

The maintenance “including but not limited to” says the rent agreement. There is no indications the rent agreement excludes (the) intercom or the parking lot striping.(AR 680-682.) Because of the Mayor Karen Bass denial of the RSO complaint, the Mayor Karen Bass is saying that the Petitioner is not entitled to safety, health, convenience, and comfort, (in) direct contradiction to the requirements of the State Health and Safety Code, and Petitioner’s entitlement to peaceful enjoyment of the premises. Such position by the City Mayor Karen Bass and denial of rent reduction is “actual fraud, corruption, and intentionally to cause harm”. Speaking of the word “maintenance” the word repair is mentioned one time (Writ Points and Authorities), 9 times (Supplemental Petition) and the word “maintenance” is mentioned 5 times (Writ Points and Authorities), eleven times (Petition for Writ) and 16 times (Supplemental Petition), not including Exhibits. Yet the Mayor Karen Bass has trouble understanding what the word “maintenance” means.

The Respondent, Mayor Karen Bass, fights to deny full and equal housing services to the Petitioner, creating a conflict with the City laws and legal obligations.

In the world population, 61 million people died in 2023. Those who are reading this will die one day. The Petitioner will die one day. That does not change the facts of who the Respondent Mayor Karen Bass and the Real Party in Interest are, and the injustices they partake against the Petitioner.

Two tenants died at this subject address 1522 Hi Point St. in the last few years.The intercom system needed to be functional for all tenants, not just a privileged few, in order to prevent one of those deaths.

Mayor Karen Bass Denies Health and Safety to Black tenants that have disabilities

The building intercom—-similar to thousands of those across the city—-and the tandem parking—-similar to onsite parking at thousands of buildings across the city—-are for purposes of health and safety. An intercom assists tenants to screen out unwanted and possibly harmful visitors. A (gated) assigned tandem parking area (such as this address) allows tenants to maintain a safe living environment free from assaults, robberies, break-ins, and even death. An intercom and tandem parking help assure peaceful enjoyment and prolong the lives of all tenants, until they die.

Petitioner is a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American, aged over 45, with disabilities, entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52 as well as City housing ordinances. The Unruh Act states in part, “ All persons within the jurisdiction of this state are free and equal, and no matter what their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, primary language, or immigration status are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind whatsoever.”

An individual does not need to identify as a member of a class or a group to be entitled to equal protection. For the purposes of equal protection clause analysis, a class can consist of a single member. This “class of one” doctrine protects individuals from wholly arbitrary acts of state governments.

The preponderance of the evidence is that Petitioner, as a tenant, is entitled to maintenance, maintenance of the intercom and tandem parking, entitled to a working intercom in his unit, and entitled to a tandem parking stall.

The owner of the property, as well as the Mayor Karen Bass City of Los Angeles ordinances, have indicated Petitioner is entitled to maintenance, entitled to a working intercom in his unit, and entitled to a tandem parking stall.

Nevertheless, as of the date of this writing, the Mayor Karen Bass and the Owner have made no indication as to what date Petitioner will be provided with the requested housing services.

Res judicata does not apply where there are continuing damages, ongoing harm, new facts or circumstances, and different parties. New evidence for example, in this case, is that the Petitioner continues to pay monthly rent thus renewing the obligations of the city housing department, the Property Owner, and thus renewing Petitioner’s entitlement to full and equal housing services.

The Court is asked to consider that it is easy to repair the intercom in the unit because Petitioner pays his rent money for that purpose. The Court is asked to consider that it is easy to extend the single parking stall to tandem because Petitioner pays rent for that purpose. The Court is asked to order the City/owner to provide the tandem parking stall because Petitioner pays rent for that purpose, and because it is the easy thing to do.

Disclaimer. This document is based on court filed documents. The words of Mayor Karen Bass are based on the writings of her attorney, the City attorney’s office. The words of Petitioner are redacted from the filed Opening Brief and Reply Brief to the Opening Brief. Other court documents appear at the following page links: https://wp.me/P57D2C-1Lx and https://wp.me/P57D2C-1sY. (Other than words attributed to Mayor Karen Bass, all other words are based on Blackman- Petitioner- filed 5/28/2024 and other Court documents.) Los Angeles Superior Court case 23STCP00644. Johnson vs City of Los Angeles. A rent reduction is considered to be a housing service.