Los Angeles tenants living & organizing in 40+ buildings owned by corporate slumlords K3 Holdings ("Alpine LA Properties"). Part of @LATenantsUnion
Los Angeles, CA
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Just what we've all been waiting for, commentary from LA's premier scumlord on the assassination attempt
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SAVE THE DATE, SUNDAY JUNE 23 📅 K3 COMMUNITY ART FAIR!
We're reigniting the people for the climax of our multi-year K3 fight, and for our members on rent strike demanding what thousands of other displaced RSO tenants were denied of: the return of their original leases.
The H Hotel in Koreatown is planning expansion and seeks to demolish apartments on Mariposa Street and evict several families in the process. All of the families have lived on Mariposa for more than 20 years!
Sign our petition: la-tenants-union.solidarity.…
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Veritas had taken their loans on the assumption that they could evict tenants and increase rents. It didn’t work out.
globest.com/2024/01/22/brook…
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Press Conference & Rally on Monday against Green Mountain Properties, run by Ethan & Elliott Sassouni, cousins of Nathan Kadisha.
Another arm of the same Beverly Hills family is kicking more poor & working-class Latino tenants out of Koreatown.
Take one minute to sign our petition below, calling on the presiding judge in a K3 lawsuit to unseal company documents showing how K3 displaces hundreds of below-market rate tenants out of their long-time homes.
change.org/p/unseal-k3-holdi…
For the first time ever, K3 Holdings is taking organized tenants to eviction court jury trials.
We leveraged the discovery process to learn more about the nature of their predatory business. Here is what we uncovered. 🧵
Rent-stabilized housing (the only even vaguely affordable housing left for working-class ppl) across the U.S. is being handed to landlords on a silver platter for them to exploit, with the helpful non-intervention of politicians & the city.
from Koreatown, LA to Brooklyn, NY.
Landlords are emptying out rent-stabilized buildings in gentrifying areas, remodeling them into “coliving” spaces for fleeting young professionals, seeing rents surge 700% in one year
and in theory, this is legal
Our monthlong investigation explains➡️➡️thecity.nyc/brooklyn/2023/8/…
New interview about K3.
"When it didn’t work, she says the landlords eventually resorted to other types of harassment including threatening to call immigration on her and doing noisy construction that damaged her unit."
@LATenantsUnion @m0thercity @kcrw
kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-…
Zip code 90005 has 7th highest eviction rate in LA. 90005 is Koreatown, specifically Oaxacatown around 8th & Mariposa where a lot of our organizing happens.
Oaxacan & Latino families are being displaced while new developments like H Hotel are going up.
Eviction = Gentrification
The rest of Koreatown is in 90020, which has the 10th highest eviction rate.
Gentrification is facilitated by mass evictions, displacement, and landlord harassment & neglect. Gentrification also increases homelessness and wealth disparity. @CW_HeatherHutt
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We know rent increases cause homelessness.
@CW_HeatherHutt and many other councilmembers claim to be pro-tenant and run platforms about addressing homelessness.
So why is the City Council is planning to end the RSO rent freeze by allowing a huge 7-9% rent increase?
The @LAHD___ released guidance for rent increases. Unless we get action from City Council, we are looking at 7-9% increases, the largest since the 1985. In 2020, the GAO estimated that a $100 increase in median rent increased homelessness by 9%
endhomelessness.org/blog/ris…
ALT RENT INCREASES UNDER THE RSO Landlords of RSO properties can resume allowable rent increases effective February 1, 2024. No banking or retroactive rent increases are allowed. The annual allowable rent increase under the RSO from February 1, 2024 through June 30, 2024, will be 7% unless amended by City Council. An additional 1% for gas and 1% for electric service can be added if the landlord provides the service to the tenant. Landlords must provide an advance 30-day written notice for all rent increases of less than 10%. through January 31, 2024.
Here are some of our members sharing their struggles resisting gentrification in the form of predatory landlords. We're calling on @CW_HeatherHutt to help protect working-class families targeted by displacement!
Here are excerpts from the deposition of Matthew M. Deboth @mmxdeboth, the 30 year-old “asset manager” of K3/Alpine. He admits that their company policy is to offer “voluntary vacate agreements” to every household where rents are $250 or more below the market rate.
📲⚡️PHONE ZAP⚡️📱
to: Edwin Garcia, new manager of 1057 Western
323-639-0961
Script below... call text and voicemail🧵
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@LATenantsUnion is committed to supporting and defending tenants of 1057 Western who are on rent strike. Through a racist campaign of persecution, coercion, and displacement, K3 Holdings has violated their rights as tenants and forced them into unaffordable rent increases.
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Support VTA! @housingrightsSF
Because Adriana has been through this before--Veritas tried to evict her several years ago--Adriana is prepared, this time, to bring SF's biggest landlord to trial unless they agree to a fair deal that clears her debt and addresses the repairs in her home. #VTAstrong
Families really will stop buying and eating meat because the rent is too high.
Children are suffering because landlords want to squeeze their parents'!every penny.
Our solution: stop paying rent.
They're coming for that back rent. The rent we couldn't pay then. The rent we can't pay now.
The rent we stopped eating meat so we wouldn't get too behind on. The rent our elders aren't around to help out with anymore.
Make them fight for every drop of blood money.
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