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: teapaw.org/CaltransTenants/status…
Day2: teapaw.org/CaltransTenants/status…
Day3: teapaw.org/CaltransTenants/status…
Day4: teapaw.org/CaltransTenants/status…
Day5: teapaw.org/CaltransTenants/status…
Day6: teapaw.org/CaltransTenants/status…
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
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United Caltrans Tenants retweeted
Official statement below re: ROH Rally on Sept 15
To support the ongoing efforts by Reclaiming Our Homes, donate to gofundme.com/f/reclaiming-ou…
United Caltrans Tenants retweeted
LOS ANGELES:
Support @ReclaimingHomes & Caltrans Tenants' right to housing
Rally @ 2 pm TODAY Sept 15
James K. Hahn City Hall East
200 N Main St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Speakers: @ananyaUCLA @GinaForLA @bvclt_la @land_elsereno @CaltransTenants
United Caltrans Tenants retweeted
Anyways, we’ll be waiting for @kdeleon to meet with @ReclaimingHomes like he promised.
Keep the Reclaimers in their homes!
Housing is a Human Right!
United Caltrans Tenants retweeted
Martha of @ReclaimingHomes pressed KDL on his criminalization of unhoused people and the carceral “housing” offered.
@kdeleon: “I’ve listened to many homeless stories & they’ve been very happy, actually” – at Los Angeles, CA
United Caltrans Tenants retweeted
While fleeing, 7% Kevin @kdeleon called us “opportunistic parasites exploiting poor people”
To the capitalist pig and career politician, genuine solidarity is incomprehensible.
The oppressor understands only exploitation and manipulation. – at Los Angeles, CA
See @kdeleon's "vision" for El Sereno unfolding: evict, insult, and steamroll local grassroots organizations.
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”
Eviction and displacement is not a housing solution.
Group who broke into vacant Caltrans homes in El Sereno fighting to stay cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/…
United Caltrans Tenants retweeted
CITY COUNCIL VOTED YES TO AUTHORIZE THE PURCHASE OF HILLSIDE VILLA.
United Caltrans Tenants retweeted
This morning, Metro Board Planning Committee voted to adopt a "No Build" alternative for Metro/Caltrans 710 Freeway widening project. It's unprecedented for these agencies to do this - abandoning decades of work ($60+M worth) of designs/studies/engineering on widening. (a thread)
United Caltrans Tenants retweeted
Almost unheard of: LA Metro plans to approve the 'No Build' alternative for controversial proposed widening of the lower 710 freeway la.streetsblog.org/2022/04/1… via @StreetsblogLA
United Caltrans Tenants retweeted
Watch @CaltransTenants moving video! youtube.com/watch?v=sV4N6CNE… This is your housing stock under the influence of @CaltransDist7 & @metrolosangeles
United Caltrans Tenants retweeted
"The Land Trust is partnering with other groups, including Habitat for Humanity, to create bids that would allow the properties to be owned by residents instead of non-profit or corporate entities." @CaltransTenants
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@matrixgoth
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.
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…
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
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
"We send you this video letter so we can put a human face to our struggles to right what we consider a great wrong."
youtu.be/sV4N6CNEScE
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United Caltrans Tenants retweeted
Caltrans 710 Freeway homes saga is sad & bizarre "Helping [LA City plan] out is requirement that CA sell properties at original 1960s purchase prices. Some parcels that could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars will be offered for around $30K" latimes.com/homeless-housing…
Federal and state officials have allowed highway engineers to act as the most consequential urban planning authority in the country.
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…
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
Indeed, anger over the SB86 program inside Caltrans was so extreme that in the autumn of 1979 the Deputy Director of Caltrans, Robert Best, reportedly quit and joined Pacific Legal Foundation, a libertarian property rights firm, in a lawsuit against Caltrans to stop the sales.
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