Property News · June 4, 2018

Rent strike: LA tenants resort to practice from the 1900s as city’s housing crisis worsens


A few dozen tenants from a working-class neighbourhood here hopped into their vehicles, creating a caravan that would head to affluent Orange County.
After the hour-long drive in late May, the group converged on the pavement in front of a two-storey house with Spanish-tile roofing belonging to Gina Kim – their landlord’s daughter. Chung Suk Kim had bought the seven-building flat complex in Los Angeles for US$8.5 million in September. Eviction notices for all 80 residents –…

Source : South China Morning Post
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