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Los Angeles Cops Bring the Echo Park Tent Community to a Violent End

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Los Angeles Cops Bring the Echo Park Tent Community to a Violent End

On Thursday evening, around 200 hundred people arrived at the corner of Sunset and Lemoyne in Los Angeles’ Echo Park. Under a cool, cloudy sky, they raised signs that read “Services Not Sweeps” and “Housing is a human right.” For years the neighborhood has been at the center of citywide conversations around gentrification and housing insecurity. This week, all that discourse came vividly to life. The protesters were there for a vigil in support of the more than 100 unhoused people who—until that night—had called Echo Park their home. That evening advocates for the unhoused directed their anger not only at...

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In pandemic, housing authority letters omit key tenant protection info

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In pandemic, housing authority letters omit key tenant protection info

By Amy Martyn | CalMatters Public housing authorities in California, especially Los Angeles, have left critical coronavirus relief information out of letters sent to tenants. Advocates say the lack of information could lead to tenants evicting themselves when they don’t have to. Not long after Gladys Garcia obtained a restraining order against her husband last August, letters arrived in her mailbox saying that her ex owed thousands of dollars in unpaid rent and faced possible eviction. The letters from the Housing Authority of the city of Los Angeles, or HACLA, came as a surprise to Garcia. She said she had...

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