Power Property Management Charged with Disability and Racial Housing Discrimination

October 1, 2023

Los Angeles. The State Civil Rights Department of California has claimed it has served a complaint on Power Property Management, Inc. property owner Meghan Hayner, and Hi Point 1522 LLC charging them with disability discrimination after requests for reasonable accommodation by a Black tenant were ignored. The administrative case number is Johnson / Hi Point 1522, LLC et al 202305-20745222. (A copy of the original intake and latest revision appears herein). The original intake by the Blackman also named the City of Los Angeles. The City is named in numerous exhibits. Thus far the CRD (formerly Department of Fair Employment and Housing) removed the City of Los Angeles from the complaint and also would not allow the Blackman to complain about discrimination and retaliation due to Race, Age, Sex, and retaliation. (See the latest complaint as well as the email exchange with the CRD investigator). A violation of disability request (ADA) is considered to be a violation of the Unruh Act which is a housing discrimination and public accommodations law. (This is an administrative case, not yet a Court case.) The record shows that in numerous communications to the property owner and the CRD by case number (many appear on this blog), Blackman stated “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” and that the actions taken against him are intentional to cause harm; the CRD has refused to give a reason why it refuses to enforce these stated facts and elements of causation needed to prove a violation of the Unruh Act. Nevertheless, the racial discrimination allegations are an integral part of the CRD complaint as written by Blackman.

The email from the CRD shows the CRD has told the Respondents not to answer the race, age, sex, and retaliation charges. IMO the CRD sole purpose is not eliminate unlawful discrimination but to perpetuate it. The CRD under Governor Gavin Newsom operates from a position of bias in favor of the Respondent and City of Los Angeles.

Excerpts

Threats and Harassment by Power Property Management Inc and Hi Point 1522 LLC as reported to the Mayor and Council and Los Angeles Housing Department 12/8/2022 via email.

“You have made it your business to interfere with the rights of others to quiet enjoyment, to interfere with the ability of the lessor to rent units at the building, and, as I write above, to defame ownership and management. All of the rights of ownership and management with respect to your nuisance, your lies, and your defamatory false allegations are reserved. This is the only warning you will receive regarding these defaming lies.”   (Written by Thomas Khammar of Power Property Management Inc. to Blackman. Khammar is agent for Hi Point 1522 LLC and Meghan Hayner.)

Causation Ignored by the Civil Rights Department:

[Below As told to Governor Gavin Newsom’s DFEH/CRD and state employee James Cortez, MAYOR AND COUNCIL , and property owner) (VIA EMAIL 12/6/2022):

1. That Hi Point 1522 LLC and Power Property Management Inc. denied/aided or incited a denial of/discriminated or made a distinction that denied full and equal accommodations/advantages/facilities/privileges/ services to GEARY J. JOHNSON; 

2. That a motivating reason for Hi Point 1522 LLC and Power Property Management Inc.’s conduct was GEARY J. JOHNSON’s race, Black, and sex, male. 

3. That GEARY J. JOHNSON was harmed; and 

4. That Hi Point 1522 LLC and Power Property Management Inc.’s conduct was a substantial factor in causing GEARY J. JOHNSON’s harm.  

Public Code Violation Complaint 3/17/23. violation 851127:

“So the inspector is white, older, somewhat pleasant but befuddled looking and we stood face to face. As part of my written complaint, I reminded him that my unit intercom(to front of the building) has not been working since 2014. As he looked me in the eye and said quite falsely, “Oh, that has been adjudicated andI will not address it” and I almost begged: I really need that intercom to be working because I pay my rent on time and I need my deliveries. All I could think about at that moment as I faced off with a white government worker is how those Black students were denied equal protection and how it must have felt to look George Wallace in the face in 1963. He did cite the owner for the abandoned vehicle and the car was moved today after sitting there for eight years.”

Email 4/13/23:

“I as a Black, male tenant entitled to the protections of the Unruh Act, CC section 51, am not asking for anything unreasonable.”