AHF LA Times’ Ad Exposes Root of Homelessness … ‘Corruption!’
July 31 2021 - 4:12PM
Business Wire
In latest advocacy ad in the Los Angeles Times
(Sun., Aug. 1, 2021) AHF’s Housing Is A Human Right lays out how
decades of political corruption and sweetheart dealing fueled
today’s homelessness crisis
Housing justice advocates from AHF and its housing advocacy arm,
Housing Is A Human Right (HHR), are set to run another advocacy ad
in the Los Angeles Times this week (Sunday, August 1st) outlining
what they see as the root cause of homelessness in Los Angeles and
the state of California: decades of political corruption and
sweetheart dealing among politicians, developers, the real estate
industry and other special interests.
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The latest in a series of housing
advocacy ads in the Los Angeles Times by AHF, this one exposes what
AHF sees as the root cause of homelessness in Los Angeles and the
state of California: decades of political corruption and sweetheart
dealing among politicians, developers, the real estate industry and
other special interests. (Graphic: AHF)
The full-page ad headlined, ‘The Root Cause of Homelessness …
Corruption,’ points out “Political leaders are baffled about how
homelessness became so overwhelming. But it isn’t a mystery. Just
follow the trail of corruption.”
The ad itemizes and bullet points corruption and legislative
giveaways by politicians to developers and real estate interests
stretching back four decades that AHF and Housing Is A Human Right
believe supercharged homelessness into the humanitarian crisis it
is today. Among factors cited are 1985’s statewide Ellis Act, which
provides a mechanism for landlords to evict tenants, allowing
landlords to take more than 25,000 affordable units off the market
in the last decade alone and 1995’s Costa Hawkins Act, through
which Big real Estate pressured the California legislature to
handcuff rent control measures statewide, resulting in skyrocketing
rents.
In addition, the Los Angeles City Council routinely gives zoning
exemptions worth multi-millions of dollars to developers for
projects with NO affordable housing while politicians at every
level continue to take hundreds of millions of dollars from real
estate interests and do their bidding nearly every time.
“California and L.A.’s homeless crisis is a direct result of
years and years of greed and avarice by developers, Big Real Estate
interests, and most of all, politicians looking out for their own
self-interest and priming the pump for generous campaign
contributions,” said Michael Weinstein, president of AHF.
“What will it take to begin to really tackle the homeless crisis
once and for all? As our ad says, ‘Stop the Corruption!’”
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Ged Kenslea, Senior Director, Communications for AHF,
+1.323.791.5526, gedk@aidshealth.org