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LA tenants increasingly engaging in rent strikes amid housing crisis


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2018 Jun 3, 11:10am   3,958 views  14 comments

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https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/L-A-tenants-increasingly-engaging-in-rent-12963073.php

LOS ANGELES - A few dozen tenants from a working-class neighborhood here hopped into their vehicles, creating a caravan that would head to affluent Orange County.

After the hour-long drive in late May, the group converged on the sidewalk in front of a two-story house with Spanish-tile roofing belonging to Gina Kim - their landlord's daughter. Chung Suk Kim had purchased the seven-building apartment complex in Los Angeles for $8.5 million in September. Eviction notices for all 80 residents - almost all of them black or Latino - went up a few weeks later, indicating that the owner wanted to convert the units, located near the University of Southern California, into student housing.

"Vulture landlord, get a real job! Vulture landlord, get a real job!" the tenants shouted. A pair of police cars soon arrived.

But chanting is not the only way the tenants are making their feelings known. Since the eviction notices were posted some eight months ago, they have refused to pay rent.

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1   lostand confused   2018 Jun 3, 11:54am  

That is one of the advantages of buying your own home. Of course you have to contend with property taxes.
2   FortWayne   2018 Jun 3, 11:57am  

They can thank Democrats for housing shortages.
3   marcus   2018 Jun 3, 12:00pm  

Everything bad is the fault of democrats.

Maybe it's even democrats fault that too many people with IQs under 90 choose to be republicans.
4   everything   2018 Jun 3, 12:45pm  

Next time they plan a group caravan outing might be a good time to do a mass eviction and change the locks.
5   MisterLefty   2018 Jun 3, 5:50pm  

"Paul Lanctot, an organizer with the L.A. Tenants Union, ...... charges that the Kims want to convert the dwellings into student housing because they "just want to rent to a different class of people and a different race of people.""

Didn't see that coming.
6   Goran_K   2018 Jun 3, 6:12pm  

I’m sure their behavior will encourage more investors to enter the market to provide cheap rentals.
7   FortWayne   2018 Jun 3, 6:40pm  

marcus says
Everything bad is the fault of democrats.

Maybe it's even democrats fault that too many people with IQs under 90 choose to be republicans.


Who is in charge in CA? Who has been in charge in CA since the 90's?

Aren't you a history teacher? At least look at recent history.
8   Glock-n-Load   2018 Jun 3, 8:52pm  

Do people have a right to space on planet earth? If every square inch of the planet is already owned and we keep pooping out children, where do we go from here?
9   Strategist   2018 Jun 3, 9:32pm  

From the article:
"I'm not against student housing, don't get me wrong," said Robert Evans, a 32-year-old African-American security guard who makes $14.50 an hour and shares a $1,700 three-bedroom unit with six people in one of Kim's buildings. "But if you want to come in and invest in property, you can't just put people out on the streets."

Dear Robert Evans, they gave you a notice. You are OK with student housing. So what is your problem?
10   Ceffer   2018 Jun 3, 10:55pm  

Rent needs to be free shit, and more free shit is what the country is all about.
11   beershrine   2018 Jul 3, 3:23pm  

In So-Cal and all of Ca. housing prices have reached higher prices than the 07' bubble. 3k in rent for a crappy 3bd s.f. house in Fountain Valley...lol. 2k for a 1B studio in Brea!
Anyone buying as an investment rental needs there heads examined or be willing to wait 20yrs before running a profit. Craig's list has a mobile home in Fullerton with a 300k asking price. https://orangecounty.craigslist.org/reo/d/manufactured-in-great-shape/6622287424.html
12   Reality   2018 Jul 3, 5:30pm  

LOL! Wonder if the new landlord after that experience will start practicing affirmative action when recruiting future tenants, as in affirmative for those who are more likely to pay on time and don't picket the landlord's relatives' homes.
13   Strategist   2018 Jul 3, 5:33pm  

beershrine says
In So-Cal and all of Ca. housing prices have reached higher prices than the 07' bubble. 3k in rent for a crappy 3bd s.f. house in Fountain Valley...lol. 2k for a 1B studio in Brea!
Anyone buying as an investment rental needs there heads examined or be willing to wait 20yrs before running a profit.


The games have just begun. The mega home price increases are about to start. Just wait and see.
14   Reality   2018 Jul 3, 5:36pm  

Right vs Wrong says
Do people have a right to space on planet earth? If every square inch of the planet is already owned and we keep pooping out children, where do we go from here?


Not every inch of the planet is already owned. The overwhelming majority of the planet's surface is dirt cheap: you can buy a house in parts of Detroit for a song.

There are however small parts of the planet, like LA and NYC, that are very desirable. Investors and entrepreneurs are the reasons why those places are desirable, and for now have not yet been turned into another Detroit by the same type of idiots like those engaging in intimidation of the investor's relatives.

BTW, I don't even think those houses in LA are good investments now; those investing there now are handing money to the local economy, making the protest all the more ironic.

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