Local News in Brief : Repairs for Condo Project
The Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency is planning an $8-million fix for the troubled Monterey Hills condominium and town house project, a 211-acre development about four miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles.
Scores of dwellings in the 1,611-unit project are sinking into deep landfills on which they were built in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a CRA-backed venture in affordable housing for downtown workers.
CRA Chairman Jim Wood announced Friday that the first phase of a grouting project to stabilize the earth beneath the 198-unit Eaton Crest and 122-unit Temple Terrace complexes will begin in January. The entire project will be completed by the spring of 1989, he said.
Residents of many of the damaged units have demanded that the CRA buy them out because they can neither sell nor rent their property. A legal tangle of multimillion-dollar lawsuits awaits unraveling in court.
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