Tenant Victory in Skid Row Ends Systemic Harassment
LOS ANGELES, April 4, 2017 — Tenants in a Skid Row affordable housing building have settled a lawsuit with the building’s owner, management company, and former owner over mistreatment and harassment of tenants, including many who are disabled, veterans and elderly. In November 2015, 15 long-term residents of the Madison Hotel, at 423 E. 7th […]
Ordinance Prohibiting Discrimination Against Voucher Holders Upheld
SANTA MONICA, Jan. 31, 2017 — In a major victory for tenants, a court on Monday upheld a Santa Monica ordinance that bans discrimination against Section 8 voucher holders. The anti-discrimination ordinance was passed in May 2015 after the city received multiple complaints from prospective tenants that landlords were refusing to accept their housing vouchers. […]
Legal Aid Groups Receive Grant to Serve Those with Limited English Skills
LOS ANGELES, September 30, 2016 — Local civil legal aid organizations just received more than $400,000 to provide online training to attorneys and legal volunteers serving limited English proficient clients. Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, along with its partners OneJustice and Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, received the two-year grant of $413,088 […]
Historic Agreement Leads to Better Access for Limited English Proficient Speakers in Los Angeles Superior Court
LOS ANGELES, September 21, 2016 — An agreement between the Department of Justice and Los Angeles Superior Court that expands interpretation services and other language access will mean greater civil court access for plaintiffs and defendants who speak limited English. The agreement, announced Tuesday, stipulates that the court must provide free interpretation services for all […]
Judge Orders West LA Elder Care Facility to Stop Abuse, Evictions
Staff locked elderly, disabled out of rooms, cut off phones, let bed bugs run rampant LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10, 2016 — After enduring months of abuse, elderly and disabled residents of a residential care facility in West Los Angeles can rest a little easier after winning a temporary restraining order against the administrators of the […]
Low-income Tenants Win Another Fight Against Slumlord Who Stands to Profit $4.2 Million in Potential Sale
LOS ANGELES, June 20, 2016 — Low-income tenants of the Madison Hotel no longer need to suffer abuse at the hands of management. Today, Judge Yvette M. Palazuelos issued a temporary restraining order that forbids owners and management of the residential hotel from harassing the residential hotel’s tenants. Real estate mogul Kameron Segal, who bought […]
City Ordered to Stop Seizing Homeless People’s Property
LOS ANGELES, April 14, 2016 — The City of Los Angeles has been ordered to stop the seizure and destruction of homeless people’s property. The preliminary injunction from a U.S. District Judge stems from a lawsuit, Mitchell v. City of Los Angeles, that was filed in mid-March by Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, The […]
Landlords Using Fire to Illegally Evict; Lawsuit Filed to Protect Elderly, Disabled Tenants
SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 13, 2016 — After a fire damaged their apartment building in December, the 20 low-income residents of the 17-unit rent-controlled building at 1605 Ocean Front Walk — many of whom are elderly or disabled — were left outside in the cold in the middle of the night with nowhere to sleep. […]
Temporary Restraining Order Issued in Ongoing Lawsuit Against Skid Row Hotel
LOS ANGELES, March 24, 2016 — Residents of the Madison Hotel have had an important right restored: they can have guests in their home. The Honorable James C. Chalfant issued a temporary restraining order lifting the outrageous ban on guests — which also barred attorneys and tenant organizers. The ruling is the second in a […]
Advocates Announce Civil Rights Lawsuit Protecting Homeless People’s Property; Condemn Longstanding Practice of Property Seizure and Destruction
What: Press conference announcing a lawsuit seeking to stop the Los Angeles Police Department and City of Los Angeles from seizing and destroying homeless individuals’ property in violation of their well-established constitutional rights. When: TOMORROW, Tuesday – March 15, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. Where: South Steps of Los Angeles City Hall (1st St. between Spring […]