How hard is it to get a working intercom in Los Angeles? Remember the old offensive joke about how many Poles does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
CD 10 Staff Names
The transcript shows Owner Hi Point 1522 LLC hatred of Blacks who complain about housing services.
Staff Council District 10 Heather Hutt, Kimani Black,Andrew Westall, Emily Adsit, Alex Morales, Hakeem Parke-Davis, Gregory Earnest, Devyn Bakewell, Roger Gonzalez, Steele Bloodworth, Jeff Camp, Mayra Guevara, Diane Cho, Alan Antonio, Danielle Mero, Alisa Rivera, Jonathan Mitchell, Kris Simms, Frank Oliver, Robert Pullen-Miles, Roger Estrada, Terrence Gomes, Carl Young, Kimberly Valentine, Jenelle Henderson, Margarita Younkins, Jocelyn Padilla, Emani Byrd, Ricardo Carlos.
Communications from the Public. Published by the City Clerk’s office. https://cityclerk.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2023/23-0652-S11_PC_PM_11-30-2025.pdf
CODE VIOLATION COMPLAINTS FOR INTERCOM AND TANDEM PARKING
The city and council district 10 has received over 50 code violation complaints since 2015 regarding the Intercom system and the tandem parking.
THE LATEST INFORMATION PUBLISHED TO THE CITY COUNCIL AGENDA: Thomas Khammar representing Hi Point 1522 LLC shows that his biased belief is all Black persons are the same person.
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Commentary
The federal government defines housing as a unit that includes housing services: they are not separate entities. I find with my limited contact with the housing department Los Angeles and also the code enforcement department, that the biggest problem is that tenants are not receiving the services that they are entitled to. Witness the article a few years ago about the city receiving over 10,000 complaints under the harassment ordinance and almost none of them resulted in any type of discipline against the landlords. For example, Costa Hawkins law allows deregulation of rent controlled units when a tenant vacates. The owner can raise the rent but the law does not give them the right to charge for utilities, where there was a single master meter in the building, and the previous tenants were not paying for utilities because it was included in the rent. But unscrupulous landlords in these few cases where there is only one master meter, they will tell unknowning tenants that they have to pay something towards the utilities. No.There in lies the problem that the city housing is not enforcing the housing laws, fair housing or otherwise. For example, I have had a running battle with the code enforcement department since 2014 over the city and state law on Intercom systems commonly referred as the law on multi family two way communications between the box on the outside of the building and an interface or indoor monitor that is supposed to be on the inside of each unit. Even though the law says the building must be built with an indoor monitor in each unit, landlords have been without question and without telling tenants their rights, requiring tenants to use their cell phone and Wi-Fi to operate the intercom functions. My position as told to the city is that tenants cell phones are their personal property and they are entitled to privacy; it is not the tenants duty to supply housing services. So my experience with housing and property owners is that they are consistently denying me intercom services simply because they refuse to comply with the local and state law that the owner has to supply the interface or indoor monitor. At the least it’s incompetence and inexperience of code enforcement inspectors, and at the most it is pattern and practice bias and discrimination and accessibility discrimination against tenants by city government officials. I saw a written document that was dated in January 2026 where code enforcement inspector Steven Harrison said that the department was not going to enforce the intercom law after having received complaints since 2014 and instead of believing self verified video evidence that the intercom systems, two of them (Artolier and Akuvox), were not working, Harrison took the word of the owner, who claimed that the system had been upgraded, and yet the verified video evidence shows that the old Intercom and new Intercom are in the same place as they were years ago, and that the old intercom has not been replaced or upgraded, and on top of that the owner hasn’t complied with supplying indoor monitors to each unit for the WiFi based system. So neither intercom works. So this is example of not only how a property owner cheats tenants and the disabled out of housing services, like intercoms and handicapped parking, but it’s an example of how the city government aligns itself with property owners to make sure tenants are paying their rent, but not getting the services that they are paying for. So in September 2025 after complaining about two nonworking Intercom systems since 2014 and after numerous court cases, the city ordered the owner to repair or replace the non-working Intercom. Just picture seven code enforcement department employees (remember the Three Stooges) in my apartment as in on camera with the Intercom right behind them and they’re telling me that they believe the owners story that the Intercom was upgraded. Now the non-working one is right behind them just picture it and it doesn’t work and yet code enforcement is believing what the owner said and on top of that telling me that the owner basically doesn’t have to comply with the law or supply the interface indoor monitor, that it is up to me to do so. So the corrupt and biased Steven Harrison tells the owner that the department will not investigate anymore complaints about Intercoms not working and even though the two way communication law is an accessibility law. Harrison should be terminated from employment. How corrupt does the city have to be to engage in abuse of federal dollars under Mayor Karen Bass? Where is the welfare and health and safety for tenants in Los Angeles? You can read more about it if you look at these documents, posted to the Internet by the city clerks office. https://cityclerk.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2025/25-1200-S61_PC_PM_01-21-2026.pdf
One lawyer said the owner cannot charge for parking or charge for a use of the intercom if it is not allowed in the rental agreement. The lawyer said if there was an upgrade the owner would have to apply for the city capital improvement program rent increase. He said telling tenants that they must incur the cost and buy a cell phone or buy Internet service could constitute a breach of the rental agreement as well as harassment. He said if the owner wants you to use your cell phone and Wi-Fi to operate his intercom system, then insist that the owner pay you or give you a rent reduction for using your phone and your Wi-Fi, other than privacy considerations because the owner will most likely be selling your personal login information.
Racism Hi Point Apts
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