Office Katy Yaroslavsky Says Blacks Not Entitled to Housing Services

May 30, 2024

Re: 2nd email April 18 2024 re Statutory and Case law . Parking Stalls Are Available at 1522
Hi Point St. Intercom Still Not working Unit 9. Ongoing harm and new evidence. Case CRD
Case 202305-20745222

From: G Johnson (tainmount@sbcglobal.net)
To: thao.tran@lacity.org
Cc: askdoj@usdoj.gov; ben.luu@hud.gov; jameel.e.hill@hud.gov; albert.e.proctor@hud.gov;
ciaran.mcevoy@usdoj.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org;
paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org;
highpoint1522@gmail.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us;
councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org;
councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org;
councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com;
thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com;
nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; contact.center@calcivilrights.ca.gov;
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susan.davenport@calcivilrights.ca.gov; skylight.propertymgmt@gmail.com; info@powercapitalgrp.com;
michel.abajan@lacity.org; augustus.albas@lacity.org; sabas.alonso@lacity.org; darryl.arnold@lacity.org
Date: Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 08:45 PM PDT

MR TRAN:

I do not agree that you are not able to help me. You can help me if you want to just like you have
helped other people.

I guess you expect me to be a stupid Black person. I would have to be pretty stupid to believe
what you’re saying. The issue is that I know how to read the city council agenda. I know how to
read when the council members vote on certain issues. I can see pretty clearly that your council
district representative votes on numerous issues that are not the direct concern of that district or
they are citywide issues that the full council has to vote on. Maybe you’re not so bright and
maybe you’re more stupid than I am but I wonder if that’s what you’re saying in your email that
your Counsel person only votes on issues that only concern CD five so when I look at the city
council agenda, the Clerk is lying or either you’re lying it’s one other, but it’s definitely not me.
I think when the city council votes , for example the creation of the civil rights department, I think
that is the city Council, including your district saying that you want some type of fair housing and
fair housing services in the city. So when I bring that to your attention. It’s only in reference to the
types of things that you’ve already voted on in terms of discrimination and fair housing and
things along those lines but from the verbiage of your email, you’re pretty much saying that you
don’t wanna have anything to do with those issues because your Counsel person is not capable
or intelligent enough to vote on citywide issues. I hope you see the contradiction and hypocrisy.
I hope there are no Black or Hispanic people in your district asking you for help on any issue
even if it is a citywide issue. I’m sorry the office of this Counsel person has such a biased attitude
towards matters of significant importance.

I am sure if Black and Hispanics are being unfairly shot down in the street by the police
department, your council representative may be asked to voice an opinion or maybe even vote on something. But that is not something you seem to be agreeing with in your email response.
I thought the city had an obligation to assure that City connected programs and federally funded
programs are done so in a manner that does not discriminate and violate the civil rights laws, so
bringing such matters to your attention, It seems the law says that you’re obligated to respond
to those issues, but in your email, you don’t take responsibility, like a good little Racist. Like I
said , hypocritical.

I feel sorry for you.

Geary Juan Johnson
Phone 323-807-3099

On Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 05:35:14 PM PDT, Thao Tran thao.tran@lacity.org wrote:
Mr. Johnson,
Please contact your representatives at Council District 10. Unfortunately, our office is unable to assist you in this matter.
Respectfully,
cd5.lacity.gov
Thao N. Tran (She/Her)
FIELD DEPUTY – MID-CITY WEST/CARTHAYS
O: (213) 473-7005
C: (213) 898-4959
Los Angeles City Hall
200 North Spring St., Room 440
Los Angeles, CA 90012

On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 5:31 PM G Johnson tainmount@sbcglobal.net wrote:
CRD Case 202404-24200103
CRD Case 202404-24200503
HUD case 09-24-3598-8

Subject: Statutory and case law regarding housing services in the city of Los Angeles

Dear CD 5:

I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American. I am a Black male
tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State
Unruh Act, CC 51,52, 54.

I again request your assistance.

This email is forwarded to HUD, and the property owner, included in the emails above. All
rights reserved.

This email is as regards events up to April 16, 2024.

There are numerous laws that govern the obligations of the property owner as regards housing. There is statutory law, and there is also case law. As for statutory law, just generally speaking, there is the law of contracts, discrimination and housing, the city of Los Angeles, tenant, anti-harassment ordinance, Los Angeles municipal code, rent control, Los Angeles, municipal code, REAP department, Los Angeles municipal code code enforcement department, and civilandhumanrights@lacity.org. Civil and human rights
department.

A rental agreement is recognized under the law of contracts, and the rent agreement is recognized under the city tenant anti- harassment law. The rent agreement is also recognized under other city Los Angeles municipal code sections.
As regards to case laws, generally speaking, there are case laws on housing, the state Unruh act, contracts, civil rights. In case law small claims case, 21STSC04574, 2021, the court ruled damages of $569.99 to myself were after finding that the property owner was obligated for denying an operating Intercom system and tandem parking.

April 19, 2024

Subject: The Torture of Blacks by Los Angeles City Government over Nine Years. Obligations of the Owner

From: GJohnson(tainmount@sbcglobal.net)

To: thao.tran@lacity.org

Cc: askdoj@usdoj.gov; ben.luu@hud.gov; jameel.e.hill@hud.gov; albert.e.proctor@hud.gov; ciaran.mcevoy@usdoj.gov; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org; hcidla.reap@lacity.org; paul.krekorian@lacity.org; councilmember.price@lacity.org; councilmember.lee@lacity.org; highpoint1522@gmail.com; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org; councilmember.raman@lacity.org; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org; cd10@lacity.org; councilmember.park@lacity.org; councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org; gavin@gavinnewsom.com; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com; thomas@powerpropertygrp.com; brent@powerpropertygrp.com; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org; contact.center@calcivilrights.ca.gov; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org; hud-pihrc@ardentinc.com; openjustice@doj.ca.gov; susan.davenport@calcivilrights.ca.gov; skylight.propertymgmt@gmail.com; info@powercapitalgrp.com; michel.abajan@lacity.org; augustus.albas@lacity.org; sabas.alonso@lacity.org; darryl.arnold@lacity.org; cityclerk@lacity.org; civilandhumanrights@lacity.org

Date: Friday, April 19, 2024 at 11:41 AM PDT

CRD Case 202404-24200103 CRD Case 202404-24200503 HUD case 09-24-3598-8

The Torture of Blacks by Los Angeles City Government over Nine Years. Obligations of the Owner

Dear CD5 Katy Yaroslavsky:

1. The property owner Hi Point 1522 LLC is obligated by law to provide an operating intercom system and tandem parking.

2. The obligation arises from the rent agreement. (42 USC 1981). See attached rent agreement of 2010.

3. The obligation to provide tandem parking arises from the 2021 change in terms of tenancy. See attachment.

4. The documents attached have previously been provided to Los Angeles Housing Department and council members numerous times over the last nine years.

5. I remind you that the LAHD has issued numerous RSO decisions regarding these issues; one is at city case CE273371. There is no indication from any of those decisions that the LAHD in any way supports your assertion that the landlord is not obligated to provide operating intercom system and tandem parking. You might want to read the case file. I am told the file is over 2,000 pages long.

6. My complaint continues because I still do not have an operating intercom or tandem parking stall. The owner, in documents released to your office, has alleged there is an intercom system at the front of the building. Pictures supplied to LAHD show that the building came with an intercom system in 1974 and as witnessed in 2010. Video links to your office show that the intercom is “network unavailable.” Video links to your office also show that the intercom in my unit is not operating.

7. Your office has also been supplied video links that there is available tandem parking stalls, yet the owner has intentionally to cause harm not supplying an operating intercom or tandem parking stall to this date.

8. The owner has refused to respond to my inquiries, as your office is aware.

9. The Akuvox on the outside of the building and the parking lot tandem stalls clearly indicate the owner obligations.

10. The rent agreement clearly states the owner obligation to provide maintenance that is “including but not limited to”. The tenant liability is to report the need for maintenance, provided damage has not been done by the tenant. The owner is obligated to provide the maintenance/requested services when they have the opportunity. Communications over the past nine years supplied to the City prove the property owner has had ample opportunity to supply the requested housing services. There is no indication in the rent agreement that the owner has the authority or discretion to deny any maintenance or services requested by the tenant. The Akuvox system and unit 9 intercom, as well as parking and tandem parking, are the property of the owner and his obligation to maintain.

11. The owner acts in a discriminatory, unreasonable, and bad faith manner, and acts in concert with the City of Los Angeles Housing Department.

12. It takes a lot of time and money to write these emails but it would only take the City Housing a few minutes to order the owner to supply the requested services.

13. Where is the directions to work the Akuvox system? Where is the smartphone and WiFi to use the Akuvox system?

14. I remind you again that the property owner has admitted its obligation to supply an operating intercom and tandem parking, in such documents in the possession of the LAHD.

I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American. I am a Black male tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52.

I again request your assistance.

This email is forwarded to HUD, and the property owner, included in the emails above. I copy your civil and human rights department as I am currently a rent-paying tenant at this address.

The Torture of Blacks by Los Angeles City Government over Nine Years

This email is as regards events up to April 16, 2024.

Geary Juan Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA. 90035

Phone 323-807-3099

cc: City clerk office subject to claim for damages for not publishing Public Comments.

Reference:
Submitted Public Comments: 24-0428, 23-1204, 22-1545, 23-0600-S40, 14-1242.

MOTION (HUTT for PARK – BLUMENFIELD) relative to allowing overnight parking at Venice and Pacific (Lot No. 731) and Venice and Dell (Lot No. 701) on Saturday, April 20, 2024, for residents adjacent to the street closures for the Venice Boulevard CicLAvia event in Council District 11. Opposed. The mayor and council should be given property owners an alert today as to which residential streets will be impacted and how food prices will rise as the impact of the 2028 Olympics. Office Katy Yaroslavsky Says Blacks Not Entitled to Housing Services. https://lahousingpermitsandrentadjustmentcommission.com/office-katy-yaroslavsky- says-blacks-not-entitled-to-housing-services/ . “Housing services are services that are connected with the use or occupancy of a rental unit including, but not limited to, utilities (including light, heat, water and telephone), ordinary repairs or replacement, and maintenance including painting. The term also includes the provision of elevator service, laundry facilities and privileges, common recreational facilities, janitor service, resident manager, refuse removal, furnishings, food service, parking and any other benefits, privileges or facilities. (LAMC Sec. 151.02, Definition of Housing Services). (Emphasis added). ” Reference also see the state Building Code on Chapter 18.48 PARKING AND LOADING STANDARDS. One (1) space for each one (1) bedroom dwelling, two (2) spaces for each dwelling with more than one (1) bedroom; seventy-five percent (75%) of all spaces shall be covered; plus one (1) guest parking space for each four (4) units. Apartment developments shall provide a minimum of two hundred fifty (250) cubic feet of lockable storage per unit to be located in a carport or other approved area. Multiple-Family Dwelling (Three (3) More). The property and landlord is also subject to the city and state housing discrimination laws. See attached email exchanges to office of Katy Yaroslavsky. Code enforcement complaints to LAHCID and LADBS Los Angeles. https://wp.me/P6ztbL-i

42 U.S. Code § 1981 – Equal rights under the law

(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.

Excerpt

TENANT ANTI-HARASSMENT ORDINANCE

SEC. 45.30. FINDINGS.

The City of Los Angeles has an extreme shortage of affordable rental housing.

Housing advocates report that some unscrupulous landlords have been constructively evicting long-term tenants by engaging in harassing conduct in order to coerce vacancies, and thereby charge higher market rate rents.

In 2018, the Housing and Community Investment Department investigated approximately 10,000 tenant complaints of harassment in rent stabilized units concerning illegal rent increases, illegal evictions, failure to post required notifications non-registration of rental units, illegal tenant buy-out agreements, and denial of relocation assistance.

Other harassing conduct used by residential landlords to cause unlawful evictions include reducing housing services, issuing eviction notices based upon false grounds, and refusing to complete repairs required by law. Habitability and other tenant complaints are often not raised with landlords nor with City inspectors for fear of retaliation.

Tenants living in rental units are especially vulnerable to landlord harassment due to the shortage of other available affordable rental housing and lack of accessible remedies.

Harassment of tenants is severely impacting the City’s most marginalized community members who deserve rental housing stability and security. Now more than ever, the City needs to adopt civil and criminal remedies to address these unlawful harassment practices to help tenants achieve meaningful remedies to deter this bad conduct and to make tenants harmed by such conduct whole. (Emphasis added)

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April 18, 2024

Re: 2nd email April 18 2024 re Statutory and Case law . Parking Stalls Are Available at 1522 Hi Point St. Intercom Still Not working Unit 9. Ongoing harm and new evidence. Case CRD Case 202305-20745222

CRD Case 202404-24200103

CRD Case 202404-24200503 HUD case 09-24-3598-8

From: GJohnson(tainmount@sbcglobal.net)

To: thao.tran@lacity.org

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Date: Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 05:31 PM PDT

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Subject: Statutory and case law regarding housing services in the city of Los Angeles

Dear CD 5:

I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American. I am a Black male tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52, 54.

I again request your assistance.

This email is as regards events up to April 16, 2024.

As regards to case laws, generally speaking, there are case laws on housing, the state Unruh act, contracts, civil rights. In case law small claims case, 21STSC04574, 2021, the court ruled damages of $569.99 to myself were after finding that the property owner was obligated for denying an operating Intercom system and tandem parking.

Geary Juan Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles CA. 90035

Phone (. )

Subject: April 18 2024 Parking Stalls Are Available at 1522 Hi Point St. Intercom Still Not working Unit 9. Ongoing harm and new evidence. Case CRD Case 202305-20745222

From: G Johnson ( )

To: thao.tran@lacity.org

Date: Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 09:47 AM PDT

Dear Thao Tran, city employee:

CRD Case 202404-24200103 CRD Case 202404-24200503

HUD case 09-24-3598-8

I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American. I am a Black male tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52.

I again request your assistance.

This email is as regards events up to April 16, 2024.

You stated previously “Unfortunately, LAHD enforces code violations in building and safety codes to reverse and alter trends of deterioration, such as deferred maintenance of plumbing, electrical, or mechanical systems. 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.”

Please provide the section of the LAMC that AUTHORIZES your position as stated.

1. Is your position that all the tenants and condominium owners in multifamily dwellings and buildings two stories or more in CD 5 and the rest of the City are not entitled to intercom services?

2. Is your position that all the tenants and condominium owners in multifamily dwellings and buildings two stories or more in CD 5 and the rest of the City are not entitled to the health, safety, and security of an intercom system?

3. How do you build a four story market rate luxury apartment building with 30 units and not have an intercom system and tell the tenants they are not entitled to an intercom system?

4. The city granted certificate of occupancy, with accompanying inspection by city employees, granted to buildings with intercoms and parking stalls, does not say the owner is not obligated to provide intercoms and parking stalls.

ONGOING HARM AND CONTINUING DAMAGES AS RECOGNIZED BY THE STATE GOVERNMENT OF CALIFORNIA.

Geary Juan Johnson 1522 Hi Point St 9
Los Angeles. CA. 90035 Phone 323-807-3099

April 17, 2024

From: G Johnson <tainmount@sbcglobal.net>

To: Thao Tran <thao.tran@lacity.org>

Cc: askdoj@usdoj.gov <askdoj@usdoj.gov>; ben.luu@hud.gov <ben.luu@hud.gov>; jameel.e.hill@hud.gov <jameel.e.hill@hud.gov>; albert.e.proctor@hud.gov <albert.e.proctor@hud.gov>; ciaran.mcevoy@usdoj.gov <ciaran.mcevoy@usdoj.gov>; mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org <mayor.helpdesk@lacity.org>; lahd.rso.central@lacity.org <lahd.rso.central@lacity.org>; hcidla.reap@lacity.org <hcidla.reap@lacity.org>; paul.krekorian@lacity.org <paul.krekorian@lacity.org>; councilmember.price@lacity.org <councilmember.price@lacity.org>; councilmember.lee@lacity.org <councilmember.lee@lacity.org>; highpoint1522@gmail.com <highpoint1522@gmail.com>; 09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us <09e41e7459a05677911c@powerpropertygroup.mailer.appfolio.us>; councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org <councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org>; councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org <councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org>; councilmember.raman@lacity.org <councilmember.raman@lacity.org>; councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org <councilmember.yaroslavsky@lacity.org>; cd10@lacity.org <cd10@lacity.org>; councilmember.park@lacity.org <councilmember.park@lacity.org>; councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org <councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org>; gavin@gavinnewsom.com <gavin@gavinnewsom.com>; maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com <maintenance@alltimemaintenance.com>; thomas@powerpropertygrp.com <thomas@powerpropertygrp.com>; brent@powerpropertygrp.com <brent@powerpropertygrp.com>; frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com <frontdesk@powerpropertygrp.com>; nisi@powerpropertygrp.com <nisi@powerpropertygrp.com>; councilmember.soto-martinez@lacity.org <councilmember.soto- martinez@lacity.org>; contact.center@calcivilrights.ca.gov <contact.center@calcivilrights.ca.gov>; councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org <councilmember.harris-dawson@lacity.org>; hud- pihrc@ardentinc.com <hud-pihrc@ardentinc.com>; openjustice@doj.ca.gov <openjustice@doj.ca.gov>; susan.davenport@calcivilrights.ca.gov <susan.davenport@calcivilrights.ca.gov>; skylight.propertymgmt@gmail.com <skylight.propertymgmt@gmail.com>; info@powercapitalgrp.com <info@powercapitalgrp.com>; michel.abajan@lacity.org <michel.abajan@lacity.org>; augustus.albas@lacity.org <augustus.albas@lacity.org>; sabas.alonso@lacity.org <sabas.alonso@lacity.org>; darryl.arnold@lacity.org <darryl.arnold@lacity.org>

Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 10:07:06 AM PDT

Subject: April 17 2024 Parking Stalls Are Available at 1522 Hi Point St. Intercom Still Not working Unit 9. Ongoing harm and new evidence. Case CRD Case 202305-20745222

Dear CD5 Thao Tran:

I address your statement you sent by email March 14: “Unfortunately, LAHD enforces code violations in building and safety codes to reverse and alter trends of deterioration, such as deferred maintenance of plumbing, electrical, or mechanical systems.” I disagree that you can minimize the duties of the code violations division.

The code enforcement, REAP, and RSO are all divisions under the city Los Angeles Housing Department. Each has related but separate duties. I don’t see that your stated duties of LAHD is anywhere stated in the LAMC. Your email does not address my code enforcement complaints, REAP complaints, or RSO complaints. If using the city online portal, you will see a long list of items that the code enforcement has jurisdiction over. You have not included this list in your email. One thing the Building and Safety and Health and Safety codes state is “including but not limited to” which means code enforcement has jurisdiction over all sections of the property including the intercom and parking lot. It appears this is the position of your office and code enforcement that they do not have jurisdiction, which is not true. Code enforcement also has jurisdiction over nuisance.

California Code, Civil Code – CIV § 3479

Anything which is injurious to health, including, but not limited to, the illegal sale of controlled substances, or is indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property, or unlawfully obstructs the free passage or use, in the customary manner, of any navigable lake, or river, bay, stream, canal, or basin, or any public park, square, street, or highway, is a nuisance.

The lack of operating intercom and tandem parking stall is injurious to my health, as I have stated and so has my doctor. Your letter, Thao, does not deny that the owner is obligated to provide maintenance to the intercom and parking, such maintenance that I am entitled to under the rent agreement, and LAMC as it defines housing services. This is maintenance that the owner is obligated to provide UNDER LAW.

I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American. I am a Black male tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52.

I again request your assistance.

Geary Juan Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles. CA. 90035

Phone 323-807-3099

From: G Johnson <tainmount@sbcglobal.net>

To: Thao Tran <thao.tran@lacity.org>

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Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 08:52:29 AM PDT

Subject: Re: Parking Stalls Are Available at 1522 Hi Point St. Intercom Still Not working Unit 9. Ongoing harm and new evidence. Case CRD Case 202305-20745222

Dear Thao Tran, city employee:

I also reference here city employee CD 10 Terence Gomes because he emailed me and may have called me and I answered his concerns by voicemail left on April 15, 2024 at about 11:15 pm.

A new state civil rights department complaint has been filed against the City of Los Angeles regarding this matter. HUD has also been asked to investigate the city government of Los Angeles in this matter.

I further respond to your comment left by email that “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.”

Your statement is not true. Your office is obligated to intervene because the city government has a duty to act in compliance with all civil rights laws; your email statement indicates that your office is not willing to comply with the federal, state, and local civil rights laws. All city programs and activities must be conducted in a manner that does not discriminate against persons like myself because of my race, sex, color, and any other protected activities. I hava been writing the office of CD 5 and CD 10 for years and received no non-discriminatory assistance.

The numerous code violation complaints, RSO complaints, and REAP complaints give the City jurisdiction over these matters and establish liability.

There are numerous white tenants on this street who have a working intercom system and parking, sometimes tandem, and I would like to know why your office is saying I am not entitled to those same housing services.

The acts of the parties respecting the subject matter of a contract and before any dispute has arisen, thus evidencing the practical construction given by the parties themselves, is given weight by courts in attempting to arrive at the parties’ intent. Courts are not blind to a measure of truth in the ancient adage, “Actions speak louder than words.” (Retsloff v. Smith, 79 Cal. App. 443, 452 [8] [249 P. 886]; Tennant v. Wilde, 98 Cal. App. 437, 453 [8] [277 P. 137]; Universal Sales Corp. v. California Press Mfg. Co., 20 Cal. 2d 751, 761 [4] [128 P.2d 665]; Bergin v. van der Steen, 107 Cal. App. 2d 8, 13 [3] [236 P.2d 613]; Kohn v. Kohn, 95 Cal. App. 2d 708, 713, 714 [1b] [214 P.2d 71]; Lawrence Block Co. v. Palston, 123 Cal. App. 2d 300, 311 [20] [266 P.2d 856].)

As you know, the owner of this property clearly has installed tandem parking (security gate), and operating intercom for select tenants, excluding myself ( I cannot even get the CD 10 office to request the owner to supply me with the instructions to use the Akuvox system). I do not have a working intercom or tandem parking stall for years. This is known to your office. The owner has assumed legal liability for the intercom and tandem parking, which your office is aware of, for years. Therefore, under the law CC 51,52,54, the owner is liable to provide “full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services” which includes an operating intercom and tandem parking i.e “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.” CC 51,52. “Full and equal” (CC 51,52,54) is the law that obligates the owner to provide an operating intercom and tandem parking.

Even though I have filed numerous code violation complaints—and inspectors have been on the property and in the unit repeatedly—they have said to me to my face that they will not inspect the intercom system nor the striping of the tandem parking. I am sure code inspectors have written in their report that I am not available for inspection—-ignoring that I told them to force the owner to appear for inspection—-but the truth is why should I subject myself to harassment by city government employees who have vowed they will not inspect no matter how I submit a complaint. City governments have been held liable under the state Unruh Act, CC 51,52.

I am a tenant who is Ham-Jew-DNA-Kushite/Black male American . I am a Black male tenant, aged over 45, and with a disability entitled to all privileges and rights under the State Unruh Act, CC 51,52.

I again request your assistance.

Geary Juan Johnson

1522 Hi Point St 9

Los Angeles. CA. 90035

Phone 323-807-3099

REFERENCE: Office Katy Yaroslavsky Says Blacks Not Entitled to Housing Services. Office Katy Yaroslavsky Says Blacks Not Entitled to Housing Services

REFERENCE:

Council File No.: 22-1545. Submission Apr 16, 2024.

April 16, 2024

LOS ANGELES. The City Council office of Katy Yaroslavsky thru employee Thao N. Tran appears to say that Jews and Blacks are not entitled to housing services. After complaining to the City Council for over nine years about a lack of working intercom and denial of tandem parking, council district 5 wrote on 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.” You can see the tenant’s response below. The problem here with this answer is that when the building was built, the city issued a COO (certificate of occupancy) for the building that included the intercom system and tandem and single car parking. When a security gate was later added to the parking lot, the city again had to authorize the motor for the gate and a rent increase to tenants. It is pretty clear that law or not, it is the intention of the legal rent agreements that tenants are entitled to a working intercom and tandem parking, by the conduct of the parties. There is no law that excludes the intercom and parking, in fact just the opposite, the state Health and Safety Code, rent agreement, and LAMC on housing services all say housing services are “including but not limited to” meaning that the landlord is obligated by law to provide an intercom that is functional and parking; state law is clear on the fact that if parking is provided, there must be so many stalls (1-2) for each unit depending on how many units. As a side note, the owner of the property, as known to councilperson Katy Yuroslavsky’s office, has said in writing that the tenants (Black and Jewish) are entitled to a working intercom and tandem parking stall as of 2021, but the working intercom and tandem parking stall have not yet been provided. The city has received numerous code violation, RSO, and REAP complaints that BY LAW give the city jurisdiction. This is part of the municipal code that obligates the landlord to provide operating intercom, parking, and parking gate.

“Housing services are services that are connected with the use or occupancy of a rental
unit including, but not limited to, utilities (including light, heat, water and telephone), ordinary repairs or replacement, and maintenance including painting. The term also includes the provision of elevator service, laundry facilities and privileges, common recreational facilities, janitor service, resident manager, refuse removal, furnishings, food service, parking and any other benefits, privileges or facilities. (LAMC Sec. 151.02, Definition of Housing Services). (Emphasis added).” Reference also see the state Building Code on Chapter 18.48 PARKING AND LOADING STANDARDS. One (1) space for each one (1) bedroom dwelling, two (2) spaces for each dwelling with more than one (1) bedroom; seventy-five percent (75%) of all spaces shall be covered; plus one (1) guest parking space for each four (4) units. Apartment developments shall provide a minimum of two hundred fifty (250) cubic feet of lockable storage per unit to be located in a carport or other approved area. Multiple-Family Dwelling (Three (3) or More). The property and landlord is also subject to the city and state housing discrimination laws.

2024-4-15 2nd Email Response to CD5 Tran Download

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