Venice: Another View on Low-Income Housing

So some people in Venice don’t want low-income neighbors. (“25-Unit Low-Income Housing Project Moves Forward Despite Opposition,” 12/8/94).

As the attorney who evicts drug dealers and gangsters from nonprofit housing in L.A. County, (and not a lawyer for these Venice developers), I can say that the Oakwood Property Owners Assn. doesn’t know what it is talking about. The reputations of developers Stephen Clare and David Kramer are excellent in our community. And the crime rates in low income, nonprofit, non-governmental housing in Venice, West Hollywood and Santa Monica is so low that I have shifted almost my entire practice to the Downtown L.A. courts.

The objectors don’t like the homeless, they don’t want housing for the working poor, and they don’t support leftist programs that redistribute our nation’s wealth. How then are they proposing to make the non-wealthy disappear?

JACK L. SCHWARTZ, Los Angeles