The Barrington Plaza Tenants Association filed a lawsuit aimed at stopping the mass eviction of tenants at the 712-unit, rent-controlled apartment complex in West Los Angeles.
The suit follows an announcement by owners last month that the complex -- which has been the scene of two fires over the past decade, including one that killed a 19-year-old foreign exchange student -- will be closing to all renters and begin vacating occupied units so the buildings can be renovated with fire sprinklers and other safety upgrades.
The tenant suit maintains that the landlord can make the safety upgrades without permanently displacing them. The Ellis Act has been routinely used by developers to circumvent local eviction protections in order to oust low-income and working renters to convert the property into luxury hotels and condominiums, the plaintiffs' attorneys allege -- leading to what they say has been the removal of tens of thousands of rent-controlled units in Los Angeles, worsening the city's affordable housing crisis.
"It's a very convenient location for my work, for public transportation,'' she said. "I don't have a car, so I depend on public transportation.''
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