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United Caltrans Tenants

@CaltransTenants

Housing Rights for the 710 Corridor

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Taking a long walk through the corridor of shame...and we're only in the 1980s so far... Day1: nitter.gq/CaltransTenants/status… Day2: nitter.gq/CaltransTenants/status… Day3: nitter.gq/CaltransTenants/status… Day4: nitter.gq/CaltransTenants/status… Day5: nitter.gq/CaltransTenants/status… Day6: nitter.gq/CaltransTenants/status…
United Caltrans Tenants (@CaltransTenants) profile pictureUnited Caltrans Tenants@CaltransTenants11 Nov 2021
Caltrans Right of Way Day 6: Buying Back. In 1982, the LA Times article, “Tenants Get Chance to Buy Homes,” explains how Caltrans tenants in Echo Park and Silver Lake saved themselves from eviction by demanding the right to buy their homes from Caltrans: bit.ly/3D80NpQ
Image from United Caltrans Tenants (@CaltransTenants)
Image from United Caltrans Tenants (@CaltransTenants)
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See @kdeleon's "vision" for El Sereno unfolding: evict, insult, and steamroll local grassroots organizations.
J-Town Action と Solidarity (@JTOWNACTION) profile pictureJ-Town Action と Solidarity@JTOWNACTION10 Jun 2022
WATCH: This AM, @ReclaimingHomes served @kdeleon with their demands to stay in their El Sereno homes. When they refused to be passed off to his staffer, he ran away. “We need you to tell us a date [to meet] before you leave. We’ve already been searching for answers”
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Eviction and displacement is not a housing solution.
CBS LA (@CBSLosAngeles) profile pictureCBS LA@CBSLosAngeles2 Jun 2022
Group who broke into vacant Caltrans homes in El Sereno fighting to stay cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/…
Group who broke into vacant Caltrans homes in El Sereno fighting to stay

Group who broke into vacant Caltrans homes in El Sereno fighting to stay

Two years ago, the group broke into the vacant homes which were supposed to be demolished for the failed 710 freeway extension project.

cbsnews.com
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Cooperative housing was at the very heart of the state law protecting Caltrans tenants since 1979. @SenMariaEDurazo and @AsmCarrillo changed the law last year but they still have a chance to support tenants in El Sereno today, before it's too late.
StreetsblogLA (@StreetsblogLA) profile pictureStreetsblogLA@StreetsblogLA4 Apr 2022
Earlier today, the United @CaltransTenants uploaded a video letter to YouTube on behalf of Caltrans renters in El Sereno asking Senator María Elena Durazo, who introduced S.B. 51, to introduce a new bill to amend it... la.streetsblog.org/2022/04/0…
Caltrans Tenants Left Out as "710 Home" Sales Move Forward - Streetsblog Los Angeles

Caltrans Tenants Left Out as "710 Home" Sales Move Forward - Streetsblog Los Angeles

"I have been living here my whole life," says Elizabeth Ortega, a Caltrans tenant for 22 years. "I think it would be just to allow us and other tenants to purchase our homes."

la.streetsblog.org
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UNITED CALTRANS TENANTS SHARE AN OPEN LETTER ADDRESSED TO SENATOR MARIA DURAZO AND HOUSING NONPROFITS IN A DIGNIFIED EFFORT TO BE HEARD: tinyurl.com/bddxkwdw @SenMariaEDurazo
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CALTRANS TENANTS IN EL SERENO ARE ASKING THAT THEY BE GRANTED THE SAME HOUSING RIGHTS AS CALTRANS TENANTS IN PASADENA AND SOUTH PASADENA! GIVE COOPERATIVE HOUSING A CHANCE!!! @SenMariaEDurazo @kdeleon @AsmCarrillo @sveres youtu.be/sV4N6CNEScE
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Federal and state officials have allowed highway engineers to act as the most consequential urban planning authority in the country.
Liam Dillon (@dillonliam) profile pictureLiam Dillon@dillonliam11 Nov 2021
NEW: More than 200,000 people have lost their homes nationwide to road construction over the last three decades. And some of the largest modern freeway projects — from LA to Houston to Tampa — are once again forcing out residents in communities of color latimes.com/projects/us-free…
Freeways force out residents in communities of color — again

Freeways force out residents in communities of color — again

Some of the country’s largest recent highway expansions have inflicted another round of displacement in largely Black and Latino communities.

latimes.com
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Caltrans Right of Way Day 6: Buying Back. In 1982, the LA Times article, “Tenants Get Chance to Buy Homes,” explains how Caltrans tenants in Echo Park and Silver Lake saved themselves from eviction by demanding the right to buy their homes from Caltrans: bit.ly/3D80NpQ
Image from United Caltrans Tenants (@CaltransTenants)
Image from United Caltrans Tenants (@CaltransTenants)
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The article suggests that the state Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) worked closely with Caltrans tenants in the Route 2 corridor to develop the legal and financial details of their plans to buy properties and organize cooperatives...
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Image from United Caltrans Tenants (@CaltransTenants)
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Caltrans Right of Way Day 5: "Caltrans Acts as 'Slumlord,' Roos Charges" in the LA Times. In 1981, during the struggle of Caltrans tenants in Echo Park and Silver Lake, both tenants and their state representatives lose patience with the Department: bit.ly/3F94jBh
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As Roos observes, the underground practice of "deferred maintenance" burdens tenants and cities with huge back-loaded costs: "through their neglect, it would now take three or four times the money (originally estimated) to bring them up to standards."
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Caltrans Right of Way Day 4: "The housing business." Tenant struggles in Echo Park and Silver Lake led directly to the creation of SB86 ("The Roberti Act") in 1979, written by Senator David Roberti and designed to protect Caltrans tenants throughout the state from displacement.
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SB86 gave Caltrans tenants the first priority to purchase their properties when highway construction projects were cancelled. The bill also provided help for low-income purchasers and housing cooperatives to ensure all tenants could stay in their homes and in their communities.
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Caltrans Right of Way Day 3: 1977, Caltrans tenants from Echo Park and Silver Lake protest outside District 7 offices in Los Angeles, demanding the right to stay in their homes along the path of the cancelled SR 2 freeway. bit.ly/3wmvvcd
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Caltrans had acquired hundreds of houses along the proposed SR 2 route, renting the properties to a mix of low- and moderate-income families. With the cancellation of the freeway in 1975, 1200 tenants faced imminent eviction as Caltrans prepared to put their homes up for auction.
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Caltrans Right of Way Day 2: 1975, Less than 2yrs after @CaltransHQ is formed, complaints from the City of Hawthorne appear in the LA Times: bit.ly/3qcIZXj Caltrans is called out for the mismanagement of 150 homes, many failing to meet basic health and safety standards.
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Hawthorn city officials learned for the first time that Caltrans, as a state agency, could act with impunity on state land, regardless of the local consequences:
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Speaking with our neighbors, city officials & legislators, we have learned that even people who want to support Caltrans tenants do not always believe what tenants say about @CaltransHQ Right of Way. So, today we begin a series of posts to introduce you to our landlord.
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The first problem tenants face is a landlord in denial. Over and over we hear that the department just isn't cut out for this, that they want "Caltrans out of the property business." As if they haven't had a Right-of-Way dept. entirely devoted to property management since 1927.
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With SB51 signed and SB381 moving through the legislature, tenants in the 710 corridor are being cut into pieces. Help us tell the governor to listen to tenants, to help us defend our right to self-determination and equal treatment under the law. govapps.gov.ca.gov/gov40mail…
Image from United Caltrans Tenants (@CaltransTenants)
Image from United Caltrans Tenants (@CaltransTenants)
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Millions $$$ spent on @CHPsouthern and @inter_con_sec has not only intimidated the community, it has shown contempt for the unhoused. @roh4housing and @rroc_la have faced this violence, risking everything to break the spell of real estate power. 41.18 is on the side of violence.
Street Watch LA (@StreetWatchLA) profile pictureStreet Watch LA@StreetWatchLA28 Jul 2021
“Housing is a feminist issue, housing is a human right. We dont need temporary carceral solutions, we need permanent housing” says Martha with the Reclaiming Homes movement on the steps of shitty hall, as they prioritize criminalization of houselessness inside.
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The fact is that @CaltransHQ created a cross-jurisdictional crisis through their own negligence. You can't fix this in pieces. We need @CountyofLA, @CA_Trans_Agency, @California_CTC to lead and make sure that the 710 sales program works for ALL caltrans tenants.
Victoria Patterson (@vpatterson1269) profile pictureVictoria Patterson@vpatterson126928 Jul 2021
"It is not wise public policy for the state to have different laws for tenant co-op purchases within the same Route 710 Corridor, and is a reminder that geographical discrimination is not a tactic of the past." @CaltransTenants
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SB51 deleted specific language from tenant protection laws in order to prioritize real estate developers. @SenMariaEDurazo claims that the deletions do not exclude tenant cooperatives but then fails to explain why it was necessary to delete the language in the first place.
Victoria Patterson (@vpatterson1269) profile pictureVictoria Patterson@vpatterson126928 Jul 2021
Replying to @CaltransTenants
@CaltransTenants want a corridor-wide solution. Prioritize tenants and the community
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Caltrans tenants waited forty years for the right to cooperative ownership. At the last minute the law has been rewritten to benefit landlords. How can this be justified? You either stand with Caltrans tenants or you stand with housing developers. You can't do both.
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SB51 was signed into law despite unified opposition by the very tenants that the bill allegedly represented. Which raises the question: who will benefit from SB51? Who paid to get to the front of the line?
Reclaim and Rebuild Our Community // RROC (@rroc_la) profile pictureReclaim and Rebuild Our Community // RROC@rroc_la25 Jul 2021
For nearly a year @CaltransTenants have been organizing against Durazo’s SB-51 bill which is blatantly discriminatory — eliminating tenant led co-ops ONLY in El Sereno [THREAD] (cc @ACLU_SoCal)
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A sad day for El Sereno. @SenMariaEDurazo and @CAgovernor have served up Caltrans tenants to real estate developers. This bill is a cynical attempt to sell off valuable community assets and limit tenants' rights so that Durazo's campaign donors can cash in.
Senator María Elena Durazo (@SenMariaEDurazo) profile pictureSenator María Elena Durazo@SenMariaEDurazo12 Jul 2021
#SB51 has passed the Assembly! One final vote on the Senate Floor before it heads to the Governor's desk! We are one step closer to bringing more long-term affordable housing to El Sereno, and to a long overdue resolution for these Caltrans-owned residential properties.
Image from Senator María Elena Durazo (@SenMariaEDurazo)
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Durazo claims SB51 creates "weath and equity in the community through homeownership...expanding and preserving affordability" but it does just the opposite. It removes specific language protecting limited equity cooperative ownership and adds priorities to expand rental units.
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Both @SenMariaEDurazo and @AsmCarrillo publicly endorsed the violence of the CHP at the time of the arrests. Let's be honest, for LA politicians the Caltrans housing crisis is not about homelessness or tenants rights. It's about who controls the real estate.
How The West Was Saved (@HowTheWestWS) profile pictureHow The West Was Saved@HowTheWestWS17 Jul 2021
Replying to @RichardBloom @MariaEDurazo
Did @MariaEDurazo ever release the vacant homes that @CaltransHQ was holding onto? unhoused residents were trying to capture the vacancies & they were met with violent arrests from the HWY Patrol who dragged a kid of one of the empty homes in handcuffs! @CaltransTenants
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Carolyn Dabney was held up as the "resident expert" by Caltrans in this meeting. Expert of what? The 710 corridor is a raging dumpster fire of right of way malpractice. Public officials wince when the flaming mass rolls past their doorstep.
Streetsblog CA (@StreetsblogCal) profile pictureStreetsblog CA@StreetsblogCal28 Jun 2021
CTC delays weighing in on sale of apartment building in South Pasadena. Tenants say they have first right of refusal. Caltrans claimed otherwise - but blew a lot of smoke at the CTC cal.streetsblog.org/2021/06/… via @streetsblogcal
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In January, @CaltransDist7 told the @California_CTC that they leased vacant homes "due to the immediate need for shelter and housing" without admitting that they were actually houses reclaimed in a direct action protest against Caltrans' absolute indifference to homelessness.
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