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Rent Control
Rent control was abolished state-wide more than a year ago and now many tenants complain of harassment by landlords who want them out so they can raise rents. Will low income renters soon be driven from Santa Monica and West Hollywood? Meanwhile, state and local resources for affordable housing are drying up just as welfare reform is kicking in. Will L.A. soon have thousands more homeless?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readSarah Catania: Political reporter for the L.A. Weekly. Kate Wechsler: Aggrieved Santa Monica tenant. Iona Blackwell: General counsel of the Santa Monica Rent Control Board for the past eight years.Bob Sullivan: Principal in Sullivan-Dituri Real Estate which owns and/or manages 1,500 apartment units in Santa Monica; past President of the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles, and chairman of the Association's state legislative committee which worked hard for passage of the Costa-Hawkins bill which ended rent control in California. Christopher Harding: Partner in the law firm of Lawrence & Harding. Land use specialist. Long involved with rent-control issues and has represented both the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles and the Santa Monica Housing Council. Supportive of vacancy decontrol. Joan Ling: Director if the Community Corporation of Santa Monica, the largest developer and manager of low income housing in Santa Monica.Gary Squier: Executive director, Los Angeles Housing Department; he steps down at the end of the month. Alice Callahan: President of the Skid Row Housing Trust, which purchases, rehabs and manages Skid Row Hotels; director, Las Familias del Pueblos. William Gibson: Sociologist at Cal State Long Beach who studies environmental disputes along the California coast, including development, overpopulation, and the health of marine life; he covers coastal issues for the L.A. Weekly. Anthony Trendacosta: General counsel of the Santa Monica Rent Control Board for the past eight years.
topic: Court ruling in Bolsa Chica
