L.A.’s Slums and Slumlords
In your July 30 article, Barbara Zeidman, director of the city’s Rent Stabilization (a.k.a. Control) states: “The situation is far worse today than ever before.” How true, how true!
Except: It is the organization she is heading that is largely responsible for today’s dismal housing situation.
I am not speaking just of Koreatown and Highland Park. How about the formerly well-kept apartment buildings in Santa Monica, central Los Angeles, etc.?
Landlords, faced with restrictive rent control, cannot afford good maintenance. Buildings decay. West Los Angeles is heading in the same direction. Everywhere rent control has been enacted, the situation is the same: Soon, entire areas in rent-controlled cities shall look like the Bronx. A sad future to look forward to!
CATHERINE BODENSTEIN
Los Angeles
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