Aug 21 2008
July 22, 2008
By: Barbra Murray, Contributing Editor
The City of Los Angeles has joined forces with Enterprise Community Partners to establish the $100 million New Generation Fund, the city’s first multi-million-dollar financing tool for the development and preservation of affordable housing.
The New Generation Fund is owned by Enterprise and is being backed financially by a [...]
Aug 15 2008
William Tucker is the author of The Excluded Americans: Homelessness and Housing Policies (Regnery) and Zoning, Rent Control, and Affordable Housing (Cato Institute).
Executive Summary
Rent control has been in force in a number of major American cities for many decades. The best-known example is New York, which still retains rent controls from the temporary [...]
Aug 14 2008
Question 1:
Question 1:
I need access to a tenant’s apartment as his unit provides access to a central plumbing fixture. I have written him a letter asking permission to do these repairs along with three different phone calls. He is yet to respond and I am desperate to make this repairs. What can I do [...]
Dec 15 2007
Tenants Abuse Rights and Utilize LAHD as Harassment Tool
Something needs to be done against tenants where there is
documented evidence that they are maliciously abusing the systems
set in place by Los Angeles County officials. If there are housing
laws to govern landlords, then in all fairness, there should be housing laws governing
tenants who complain excessively without [...]
Nov 13 2007
Too often landlords feel guilty about evicting a tenant for anything from nonpayment of
rent to being an otherwise all-around jerk. I am passing along some thoughts from other
landlords on how they deal with any guilt they might feel about evicting a tenant.
Joe Olesik wrote…
I have gone a step further on my eviction thought process.
I [...]
Nov 08 2007
As part of the Los Angeles Housing Departments Systematic Code Enforcement Program (SCEP),
City inspectors are required to cite violations that are part of the Los Angeles Municipal Code, Uniform
Building Code, the Los Angeles Housing Code and the State of California Health and Safety Code.
These codes and the job these inspectors perform implementing them, provide a [...]
Oct 28 2007
YOU Can End Rent Control!
The below article was written by Trevor Grimm, Attorney for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
The Committee for Property Rights Protection (CPRP) with its anti-KELO/anti-rent
control Initiative* is out to kill rent control (over time). The [...]
Oct 26 2007
The following information is from “Californians for Property Rights Protection”
(CPRP), a Committee formed to qualify and pass “The California Property
Owners and Farmland Protection Act” (CPOFPA) on the June 2008 California
ballot: The CPOFPA, a new proposed Constitutional Initiative measure, has already
gone through the administrative process (reviewed by the Attorney General and
Issuance of Title and Summary) and [...]
Oct 25 2007
Private property rights are the foundation of a free society and a capitalist economic
system. Yet government officials, activists, and others often say that unrestricted private
property hurts the common good by frustrating economic redevelopment plans and
environmental protections.
In a moving and eloquent new book, attorney Timothy Sandefur defends property rights
against those critics by exposing the human cost [...]
Oct 25 2007
Rent control violates the rights of tenants and landlords alike. By means of such controls, the government infringes upon an individual’s right to make voluntary contracts between himself and others and the right to control his own property. In this essay, four basic charges made by rent control advocates also are answered. Rent controls don’t [...]