Tenant union leader Nash Stabolito talks about his living conditions in his room at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Baltimore Hotel in Skid Row in September. So Stabolito said he was “flabbergasted” to learn that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development this month awarded the foundation $10 million to promote tenant organizing at low-income developments across the country. Stabolito …
Marianne Viviano, 60, walks with her dog Peter Chocolate down steps inside the Madison Hotel in December 2022 in Skid Row. The nonprofit AIDS Healthcare Foundation will pay current and former tenants of a Skid Row residential hotel $575,000 to resolve a long-running class-action lawsuit over conditions at its property. The settlement requires Kramer to provide a statement on tenants’ …
Sascha Jovanovic should be living the good life in his private estate perched in the hills of Brentwood, enjoying the spoils of a successful career in periodontics. But now, Jovanovic says he should have been concerned based on a review on Hirschhorn’s profile from another Airbnb host that said “she had a lot of particular needs that I eventually could …
In a recent ruling, the Supreme Court reiterated that it won’t be lawful to sublet after the enactment of the Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Act, 1947 unless the contract itself expressly provides so. “The aforestated provisions make it crystal clear that, in the ordinary course and notwithstanding anything contained in any other law, unless the contract itself …
A tenant rights group is suing the real estate developer behind a vast new project slated to rise in Hollywood, arguing that it tried to skirt city requirements meant to protect renters being displaced by the new development. The lawsuit, which also names three tenants as plaintiffs, argues that the terms of the “right to return” deal were inconsistent with …
A federal inspector general has concluded that an agency 'ignored the Constitution' when it decided not to evaluate whether President Trump's election might cause a 'breach' of a long-term lease with the government for his luxury hotel in Washington. 'The GSA and its lawyers 'recognized that the President's business interest in the lease raised issues under the Foreign Emoluments and …