United Caltrans Tenants

Housing Rights for the 710 Corridor

[United Caltrans Tenants @CaltransTenants]

Taking a long walk through the corridor of shame...and we're only in the 1980s so far...

Day1: https://t.co/3SlCiMkSGZ
Day2: https://t.co/WZ5x0h3Jo2
Day3: https://t.co/HnNjSvRxnG
Day4: https://t.co/gfXZI6PFUw
Day5: https://t.co/K1s0nt3DMM
Day6: https://t.co/kDpvqqfn92

[United Caltrans Tenants @CaltransTenants]

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: https://t.co/e5NLqMYrTE

[Reclaiming Our Homes @ReclaimingHomes]

Official statement below re: ROH Rally on Sept 15

To support the ongoing efforts by Reclaiming Our Homes, donate to https://t.co/0OWf6c0bmy

[Reclaim and Rebuild Our Community // RROC @rroc_la]

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

[J-Town Action と Solidarity @JTOWNACTION]

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!

[J-Town Action と Solidarity @JTOWNACTION]

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”

[J-Town Action と Solidarity @JTOWNACTION]

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.

[United Caltrans Tenants @CaltransTenants]

See @kdeleon's "vision" for El Sereno unfolding: evict, insult, and steamroll local grassroots organizations.

[J-Town Action と Solidarity @JTOWNACTION]

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”

[United Caltrans Tenants @CaltransTenants]

Eviction and displacement is not a housing solution.

[CBS LA @CBSLosAngeles]

Group who broke into vacant Caltrans homes in El Sereno fighting to stay https://t.co/UfVg5Ctrtv

[L.A. Tenants Union @LATenantsUnion]

CITY COUNCIL VOTED YES TO AUTHORIZE THE PURCHASE OF HILLSIDE VILLA.

[StreetsblogLA @StreetsblogLA]

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)

[Streetsblog CA @StreetsblogCal]

Almost unheard of: LA Metro plans to approve the 'No Build' alternative for controversial proposed widening of the lower 710 freeway https://t.co/kLHFKMTAFx via @StreetsblogLA

[StreetsblogLA @StreetsblogLA]

Watch @CaltransTenants moving video! https://t.co/1vP6IMMVw9 This is your housing stock under the influence of @CaltransDist7 & @metrolosangeles

[How The West Was Saved @HowTheWestWS]

"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

https://t.co/unhg6n5TJB
@matrixgoth

[United Caltrans Tenants @CaltransTenants]

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.

[StreetsblogLA @StreetsblogLA]

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...
https://t.co/GJrhfXsUYx

[United Caltrans Tenants @CaltransTenants]

"We send you this video letter so we can put a human face to our struggles to right what we consider a great wrong."
https://t.co/OQqHVNmbPa

[United Caltrans Tenants @CaltransTenants]

UNITED CALTRANS TENANTS SHARE AN OPEN LETTER ADDRESSED TO SENATOR MARIA DURAZO AND HOUSING NONPROFITS IN A DIGNIFIED EFFORT TO BE HEARD:
https://t.co/KItJg2V6Sx
@SenMariaEDurazo

[United Caltrans Tenants @CaltransTenants]

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
https://t.co/OQqHVNmbPa

[United Caltrans Tenants @CaltransTenants]

@StreetsblogLA @latimes We have never understood why @kdeleon, @SenMariaEDurazo and @AsmCarrillo have worked so hard to undermine the grassroots, local community efforts to reclaim and rebuild El Sereno.

[StreetsblogLA @StreetsblogLA]

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" https://t.co/9dBJl3rhPS

[United Caltrans Tenants @CaltransTenants]

@indiademexicoEP Caltrans homes should go to Caltrans tenants. For tenants in multifamily homes, that means cooperatives. For vacant homes and empty lots, they should offered to the El Sereno Community Land Trust, to be democratically controlled by the community in perpetuity.

[United Caltrans Tenants @CaltransTenants]

Taking a long walk through the corridor of shame...and we're only in the 1980s so far...

Day1: https://t.co/3SlCiMkSGZ
Day2: https://t.co/WZ5x0h3Jo2
Day3: https://t.co/HnNjSvRxnG
Day4: https://t.co/gfXZI6PFUw
Day5: https://t.co/K1s0nt3DMM
Day6: https://t.co/kDpvqqfn92

[United Caltrans Tenants @CaltransTenants]

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: https://t.co/e5NLqMYrTE

[United Caltrans Tenants @CaltransTenants]

Federal and state officials have allowed highway engineers to act as the most consequential urban planning authority in the country.

[Liam Dillon @dillonliam]

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

https://t.co/OdUeFSAey5