Take Action Now to Stop Your Rent From Skyrocketing!

Contact Your City Council Member to Urge Them to
Oppose Council Member Parks' Earthquake Proposal
Which Will Raise Your Rent and Might Displace You!

LA City Council Member Bernard Parks' motion is a direct attack on low income and working renters in this city.

Parks wants tenants to bear the full burden of any earthquake retrofitting costs, while giving landlords a complete free pass and providing them significant rent increases by allowing them to by-pass rent control laws.

Under the guise of saying he wants to provide earthquake safety, Parks action will shake up the lives of tenants with a massive economic earthquake.

Other Council Members, and even the Apartment Association, are seeking state bonds funds to pay for the retrofitting in an effort to avoid economic calamity to both tenants and landlords.

Yet, Parks states he wants a simpler solution. And that simpler solution is sucking more money out of the pockets of those who can least afford to pay.

Parks also appears to be confused about the rent control law. He states that he wants to allow landlords to recover the full costs of the retrofitting, not just 50%. But, the rent control currently allows that for this type of work, but there are protections to tenants built in to cap the rent increases and to provide for temporary or permanent relocation benefits.

What it appears that Parks really wants to do is to eliminate those tenants protections by getting rid of the rent increase cap and relocation benefits.

With over 60% residents tenants, Los Angeles is a city of renters. Unfortunately, over 50% of renters are paying unaffordable rents. They can't afford to pay more. But, Bernard Parks wants them to.

Tell the LA City Council to Oppose Bernard Parks Rent Increase Proposal.

Help Make This Outrageous Proposal Dead on Delivery to the City Council.

Los Angeles City Council Contact Information:

Write & Mail to:

LA City Councilmember ______________

LA City Hall - Room ____________

200 N. Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Email & Call:

Los Angeles City Council Members:

GILBERT CEDILLO

213- 485-7001 Rm 470

councilmember.cedillo@lacity.org

PAUL KREKORIAN

213-473-7002 Rm 435

councilmember.krekorian@lacity.org

BOB BLUMENFIELD

213-473-7003 Rm 415

councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org

TOM LABONGE

213-485-3337 Rm 480

councilmember.labonge@lacity.org

PAUL KORETZ

213-473-7005 Rm 440

paul.koretz@lacity.org

NURY MARTINEZ

213-473-7006 Rm 425

councilmember.martinez@lacity.org

FELIPE FUENTES

213-473-7007 Rm 455

councilmember.fuentes@lacity.org

BERNARD PARKS

213-473-7008 Rm 460

councilmember.parks@lacity.org

CURREN PRICE, JR

213-473-7009 Rm 420

councilmember.price@lacity.org

HERB WESSON, JR

213-473-7010 Rm 430

councilmember.wesson@lacity.org

MIKE BONIN

213-473-7011 Rm 475

councilmember.bonin@lacity.org

MITCHELL ENGLANDER

213-473-7012 Rm 405

councilmember.englander@lacity.org

MITCH O'FARRELL

213-473-7013 Rm 450

councilmember.ofarrell@lacity.org

JOSE HUIZAR

213-473-7014 Rm 465

councilmember.huizar@lacity.org

JOE BUSCAINO

213-473-7015 Rm 410

councildistict15@lacity.org


* In case the email bounces back from a specific Council Member, please call the office of that Council Member to get correct email address.