LOS ANGELES, CA – The CD11 Coalition for Human Rights calls on Mayor Karen Bass and other City leaders to intervene on behalf of CD11 constituents who are being criminalized, displaced, and banished from the Westside at the behest of a Councilmember who answers primarily to real estate interests, police, and a minority of homeowners. Traci Park is failing not only her constituents living in poverty, but all of us who desire to live in a vibrant and diverse community that embraces people of all economic classes.
Peggy Lee Kennedy, an organizer with CD11 Coalition for Human Rights, made the following statement: “If we have learned anything, criminalization and displacement are inhumane. Our beloved diversity is being ruined. We need to stop harming people and restore low-income housing on the Westside now.”
An in-person action will be held on Saturday, July 13th at 2:00 p.m. at the corner of Venice and Lincoln Blvds. in Venice to protest Councilmember Traci Park for the reasons set forth below.
Traci Park is eroding renters’ rights: Most CD11 residents are renters, but Traci Park has undermined protections for tenants across all incomes. She went on record opposing renter protections, including a one-month grace period for tenants struggling to pay rent, and a rule requiring landlords to pay relocation fees in certain circumstances. She also supported the illegal mass eviction of 577 low-income households at Barrington Plaza after taking in $566,000 from the building’s owner, corporate landlord Douglas Emmett…
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