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Jacob Woocher

10 months

LA's War on Public Housing: An Introduction Here is the first of 10 articles on the demolition and privatization of public housing in LA. Parts 1 and 2 are published today, with the rest coming throughout the week.

LA’s War on Public Housing: An Introduction - Knock LA

The first article in this 10-part series attempts to recount the demolition and privatization that has destroyed LA’s public housing communities.

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Jacob Woocher

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2 months

The Zionist on the loudspeaker asking the pro-Palestine people to please stop occupying their area so they can do their protest. Irony is dead.

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Students at USC fighting for a free Palestine just de-arrested a comrade by blocking the police car from leaving.

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“In a good economy, homelessness goes up,” is legit the most insightful sentence to ever leave the mouth of Mayor Eric Garcetti.

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7 months

As a Jew I’ve literally never experienced anti-semitism in left spaces, including at dozens of pro-Palestine actions. Every instance of anti-semitism I’ve ever experienced has come from white (usually blonde) Christians. This effort to blame anti-semitism on the left is absurd.

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4 years

Hi @MayorOfLA you have 3 days to cancel rent or quit!

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8 months

About 150 students from Hamilton High School marched to City Hall of Culver City and are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza 😍

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

Truth is that California IS a cautionary tale -- even when Democrats dominate, the oligarchs win, the poor lose, nothing meaningful is done about climate change or poverty or police violence or mass incarceration, etc. California is the best argument against the Dem Party.

Los Angeles Times

@latimes

4 years

Speakers at the #RNC2020 turned California into a dystopian punchline, portraying America’s most populous state as a dangerous wasteland ruled by liberal politicians who are oblivious to public safety.

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Jacob Woocher

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9 months

As an LA Jew — born and raised, bar mitzvah’d at Wilshire Blvd temple — this statement sucks. This is what you say when you care for more about getting elected than showing an ounce of solidarity with Palestinian people fighting zionist colonialism.

Nithya Raman

@nithyavraman

9 months

Our district is home to beautiful Israeli and Jewish-American communities, and so many who have family in Israel. I cannot imagine the terror they are experiencing. I stand with them in condemning the horrific violence by Hamas and praying for a peaceful end to this conflict.

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Jacob Woocher

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4 years

Have LA politicians just given up with COVID at this point? Malls still open. Massive airport LAX still sending people all across the globe. People like @MayorOfLA are guilty of crimes against humanity.

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4 years

@SamanthaJPower @ewarren @MikeBloomberg @JoeBiden I hope Yemeni children haunt your dreams for the rest of your life.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

2 months

Zionists are macing or using some sort of other substance to burn peoples eyes at UCLA.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

5 years

Dear @BernieSanders and @AOC , I'm excited you're coming to Venice tomorrow, but unhoused residents are being violently displaced to make your rally possible. This happens everyday across LA, and it kills people. Please call out the local politicians responsible.

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Jacob Woocher

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2 years

That’s the fundamental contradiction of 21st century US cities (and other cities under capitalism), isn’t it? The problem is that Garcetti and the rest of the ruling class are more than happy to make that trade-off.

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Jacob Woocher

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1 year

Urban planning master's degree in a nutshell lol. beyond parody.

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1 year

It's official! La Sombrita, our shade and lighting pilot for the @LADOTofficial Gender Equity Action Plan, was unveiled this morning

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

6 years

holy shit the left-wing party in South Africa demanding "land expropriation without compensation" have shirts that say CAPITALISM SUCKS lmaaooooo

👑Nteboheng Mnguni❣️

@Nteboheng40

6 years

EFF TshwaneRegionShutdownRosslyn. @Julius_S_Malema @MbuyiseniNdlozi @ntlhapa @EFFSouthAfrica

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

LA gave the JW Marriott Hotel at LA Live $270 million in tax breaks. Today its 1,001 rooms sit almost entirely empty while the overwhelmingly Black population of Skid Row suffers less than a mile away. @MayorOfLA has the authority to comandeer this hotel and many others. (1/)

LA CAN

@LACANetwork

4 years

As #covid19 ravages the country, a disproportionate impact on Black communities is undeniable. When rumors give way to empirical data, race, and class, appear to be a powerful determinant on who lives and dies. 1/6

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Jacob Woocher

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2 years

Another disgusting Nury quote that's not typed-out in this thread or article. Re Ktown: "I see a lot of little short dark people ... I don't know what village they're from ... but boy they're ugly, tan feos."

Knock LA

@KnockDotLA

2 years

“Fuck that guy… He’s with the Blacks.” LA City Councilmembers Nury Martinez, Gil Cedillo, Kevin de León and LA Labor Federation President Ron Herrera making racist comments and discuss redistricting. Listen to the audio:

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

Empty luxury hotel rooms towering above (disproportionately Black) people who own nothing sleeping on the street — during a deadly global pandemic — is still such a perfect encapsulation of the cruelty of racial capitalism. And we should never ever get over it.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

Los Angeles imprisons 618 people per 100k residents. That’s 3x the rate of supposedly authoritarian Venezuela. That’s 10x the rate of Sweden. Life in #Garcettiville

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

Miss me with wonky or nuanced "solutions" to the housing crisis. California has 140+ billionaires collectively worth $700+ billion. LAPD gets $3 billion per year. California prisons get $13 billion per year. Redistribute money to build people decent housing, period.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

1 year

Straight up fascist language from Karen Bass. "What's most important is that the community of Venice can reclaim those streets!" As if unhoused people have no right to take up public space. As if unhoused people are not part of the community of Venice.

Chace Beech

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1 year

Mayor Bass says Venice can reclaim the streets in their community after years of encampments blocking sidewalks esp. along Hampton Dr and Sunset. This is under her program Inside Safe.

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Jacob Woocher

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2 years

It’s wild to think how different LA might be if the real estate industry didn’t kill additional public housing in the early 1950s. Instead of dodger stadium and the luxury of bunker hill, there could be thousands of units of public housing just down the street from City Hall.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

5 years

I tried to map out all the development in Downtown LA where public money and/or land was used for luxury development and to raise property values -- it's a lot! Next time someone says we don't have enough money for public housing, show them this.

This Map Shows How LA Politicians Have Created A City For The Rich - Knock LA

Our politicians have handed over staggering amounts of public money and land for luxury development. The rich win, and the poor lose.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

2 months

Encampment at UCLA is going great. Tons of people and beautiful energy. Free Palestine.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

2 years

Photo of Garcetti looking absolutely defeated and dejected to bless your feed :)

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

Good morning @MayorOfLA ! It's April 1 and people can't pay rent. We need an absolute moratorium on evictions, suspension of rent, and use of hotels to permanently house unhoused residents. No wages, no rent.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

10 months

Dropping next week: LA's War on Public Housing. A 10-part series with @KnockDotLA covering the last 40 years of the demolition and privatization of public housing in Los Angeles.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

Here's a thread on California's eviction protections -- I'm seeing a lot of confusion about this, even from tenant organizers. The courts will supposedly open in mid-August. This is a disaster because there IS NO EVICTION MORATORIUM. We need to be really clear on this. (1/)

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

2 months

If you are a resident of USC being kicked out of your housing, please feel free to reach out to me. I’m a lawyer who defends tenants in eviction. If you can send me a copy of your lease that’s helpful too. Jacob.woocher [at]

Daily Trojan

@dailytrojan

2 months

Several student protesters who are USC Housing residents were told they have until 5 p.m. Monday to pack their items and leave, according to a student protester who requested anonymity due to safety concerns. The University could not immediately provide a comment.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

3 years

I can’t believe California / LA is opening back up again tomorrow. Only 20% have been vaccinated. Indoor dining! Movie theaters! How many more times are politicians going to sacrifice human lives like this? Fucking homicidal. I hope I’m wrong and everything goes ok.

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Jacob Woocher

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3 years

It’s so fucked up that there are 500,000 hungry children in LA. How is this not one of the main things politicians talk about? Why are we not throwing huge amounts of money towards ending this? Disgusting society.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

I fucking hate the Democrats. Do you think they mentioned the massive eviction / homelessness crisis once during this convention?

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

It's nice that LA's left seems to be feeling GOOD right now, and we need to keep pushing way further. Defund the police. Tax the shit out of the rich. Seize the hotels. Now is the time to set our sights on some incredibly ambitious goals :)

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

9 months

Rough estimate: the impending 7% rent increase on rent-controlled units in LA would result in at least $504,000,000 ($504 million, or half a billion dollars) transferred from tenants to landlords over the course of just one year! Math below.

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Jacob Woocher

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4 years

Can't make this shit up. California is mobilizing armed police to ensure homes stay vacant during a massive public health crisis. This is on @GavinNewsom .

Liam Dillon

@dillonliam

4 years

@CHPsouthern Officers, however, are stationed outside 46 still-vacant homes in the neighborhood: "The CHP has been directed at the highest levels to assist Caltrans with ensuring that the houses that are state owned by Caltrans and are vacant remain vacant," Ford said.

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Jacob Woocher

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2 years

A few quick thoughts on Hillside Villa's recent win (not a final victory, but a big one). 1) You do NOT have to be nice to these politicians. There is no excuse for the nonprofits who want to 'maintain good relationships' with politicians.

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Jacob Woocher

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2 years

Meanwhile, zero solidarity or even statements of support from 'progressive' politicians as an army of LAPD forcibly prevents activists from even entering City Council chambers.

with the truth from an ancient time 🔻

@AxumSelassie

2 years

DOES THIS LOOK LIKE DEMOCRACY TO YOU?

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

7 years

. @DeanHeller @robdelaney hundreds of people rallying at Senate offices to protest this disgusting healthcare bill

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

"Black and Mexican households have 1 percent of the wealth of whites in Los Angeles—or one cent for every dollar of wealth held by the average white household in the metro area" LA IS SUPER FUCKING RACIST and all the politicians are complicit.

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Jacob Woocher

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9 months

Huge crowd in LA showing up for Palestine. I can’t see the front or the back.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

2 months

What Karen Bass did is despicable. After feigning concern about the zionist mob attacking the pro-Palestine protestors, she sent in an army of cops to violently sweep the camp the very next night.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

We're holding a car protest at Garcetti's house right now. These are our demands:

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

5 years

LA County has already lost 150,000 Black residents since 1990 (going from 13% of the population to only 8%). Now this trend is rapidly picking up in Inglewood too. This is what happens when politicians prioritize stadium development over rent control.

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Jacob Woocher

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1 year

"L.A. County landlords file thousands of evictions every month (4,053 in March alone) and by some estimates there are only about 50 lawyers in the county who specialize in eviction defense." Horrifying.

In Eviction Court, Most LA Landlords Have Lawyers And Most Renters Don’t

L.A. County landlords file thousands of evictions every month, and most tenants can’t get a lawyer. Here’s what happens when they go to court.

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Jacob Woocher

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9 months

LA COME OUT TOMORROW TO SUPPORT PALESTINE 12:30pm 11766 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90025

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

3 years

The tenants movement routinely has protests with “dozens” of people present yet we almost never get coverage in the LA Times.

Los Angeles Times

@latimes

3 years

Dozens of protesters gather for anti-vaccine rally in front of L.A. City Hall, no problems reported

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Jacob Woocher

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3 years

The idea that more (capitalist) housing production will meaningfully lower rents is such a bullshit rationalization of a cruel system that was never about providing decent homes for poor people. People really should think deeper about why we have a market for housing/land.

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Jacob Woocher

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4 years

I try to explain here why an eviction moratorium is not enough -- why we need to SUSPEND RENT. It may seem like a minor difference, but it's not. It's really urgent. That's why tenant organizations across the country are coalescing around this demand.

An Eviction Moratorium Is Not Enough — Rent Must Be Suspended - Knock LA

What will people do when they’re expected to pay back rent after the crisis is over? Groups across the country demand an end to rent.

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Jacob Woocher

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2 years

I did a deposition of a landlord recently who owns 5 units and manages them herself. She said she works about 6 to 8 hours per week.

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Jacob Woocher

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4 years

There are 4,923 hotel rooms in downtown LA built with public money or land -- nearly all are empty. There are 3,884 unhoused people within Skid Row and nearby areas. By choosing not to commandeer vacant rooms, @MayorOfLA is sentencing people to death.

There Are More Vacant Publicly-Funded Hotel Rooms In Downtown LA Than Unhoused People On Skid Row -...

Meanwhile, Mayor Eric Garcetti is refusing to use his power to commandeer hotels and get people indoors during a deadly pandemic.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

There's not enough discussion about how massive real estate profits are made off the underpaid and otherwise exploited labor of Latinx workers (many immigrants). This is the second death in 6 weeks at the Inglewood stadium.

Los Angeles Times

@latimes

4 years

Another construction worker has died at SoFi Stadium. The worker, who wasn’t identified, passed away at the job site Tuesday after exhibiting “signs of a health issue.”

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4 years

LOL the @nytimes being like “yea China did a lot to end extreme poverty, but it cost a lot of money.” Beyond parody.

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you can’t make this shit up: How dare China lift 50 million farmers out of poverty! Won’t somebody think of the deficits??

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Jacob Woocher

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11 months

Going to respond to some of this thread as an eviction-defense lawyer who is actually dealing with these laws every day. Not trying to get easy dunks but things that may sound fine on paper aren't actually very useful when we break it down.

Nithya Raman

@nithyavraman

11 months

Tomorrow (8/1) is the deadline for payment of back rent from the first 18 months of the pandemic. Experts anticipate a wave of eviction filings. Here's some of what LA is doing to keep people housed — including some tenant resources we’ve never had at our disposal before. 🧵

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

Joe Biden has no plan for the massive unfolding eviction crisis that is affecting literally millions of families.

Marissa 💃🏾

@marissaaevans

4 years

I’m aware the Biden-Harris transition plan website is newly up but as a housing reporter I immediately noticed there’s nothing on there about how they’ll address the eviction crisis that’s coming because of the pandemic.

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Jacob Woocher

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2 years

Re-reading Don Parson's book "Making A Better World" on the battle over LA's public housing in 1940s-50s. Before the red scare, the mass construction of public housing was just the obvious solution to the housing crisis for anyone vaguely on the left. Let's get back to that!

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@jacobwooch

4 years

@sewellchan @latimesopinion Have you tried this for poor people in your own city? Or more regularly seeking their thoughts? Could be a fun little experiment.

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2 years

Karen Bass is about to wage an absolute war on unhoused people, starting with declaring a state of emergency. Her plan will “aggressively target large encampments that have been a constant source of frustration for residents.”

Karen Bass will make history as L.A. mayor. Then the hard work begins

Karen Bass has said she will declare a state of emergency on homelessness in Los Angeles. 'I realize that I'm taking a huge risk,' she says.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

“Defund OPD” “Cancel Rent” “Homes For All” Painted on Oakland Mayor’s door.

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

4 years

BREAKING: A group of people covered Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf's home in graffiti and set off fireworks in the street before dawn. People in all black military gear approached the home on foot, chanting “Wake up, Libby," one neighbor said.

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4 years

Holy shit the lies from LA politicians are captured so powerfully in this short video.

Street Watch LA

@StreetWatchLA

4 years

LA City Council says that sweeps are not happening, that they are not throwing away unhoused people's personal property, that these are just "service days." We know that this is far from the truth. #HomesNotZones #ServicesNotSweeps

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4 months

Blaming the housing crisis on zoning + regulations of the past 40 years is intellectually lightweight as hell. Engels was documenting the massive housing crisis created by industrial capitalism 180 years ago. Go deeper.

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@jacobwooch

3 years

Way too many discussions on homelessness/housing crisis that completely ignore the need to defund the police, tax the rich, and otherwise redistribute resources on a massive scale!

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@jacobwooch

5 years

Median rent in LA 2010 - 2018 went up 84%. I wish there were some policy out there that would literally allow us to CONTROL RENTS and stop it from going up like this..... oh well. Guess we should just build more luxury apartments and hope that works!

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2 years

Mike Davis in 1993, about LA politics: "It takes a very fine razor indeed to split the difference between a ‘liberal’ and a ‘reactionary.'"

Kate Cagle

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2 years

NEW: LA Mayor Karen Bass says her Inside Safe initiative will head to Venice next. “I’m proud to be locking arms with Councilwoman Park to change the way we approach homelessness in Los Angeles to bring people inside in a strategic and lasting way," Bass said in a press release.

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5 years

Heard from @BernieSanders ' team, and they pressured the city to stop the regular Friday sweep of the boardwalk today -- good! But we also need a strong, public demand for #ServicesNotSweeps . LA leaders like @MayorOfLA could stop the inhumane criminalization if they wanted to.

Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

5 years

Dear @BernieSanders and @AOC , I'm excited you're coming to Venice tomorrow, but unhoused residents are being violently displaced to make your rally possible. This happens everyday across LA, and it kills people. Please call out the local politicians responsible.

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4 years

I'm worried LA's eviction moratorium isn't gonna be enough. What happens to tenants who lose their jobs and can't pay rent for several months? Will they be evicted once the halt is lifted? We need a moratorium on rent.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

8 months

Absolutely massive march again in LA. I couldn’t get a sense of the crowd size while I was in it because it was so big.

Joey Scott

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Five minutes in 10 seconds. Half of pro-Palestine rally arriving back to Pershing Square.

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2 years

We don't have to apologize for advocating for mass public housing. Anyone saying the program has been a failure should have to answer the question of why, again and again, public housing tenants have organized to protect their homes from privatization and redevelopment.

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Jacob Woocher

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7 months

Y'all Biden is having a fundraising even in West LA tomorrow. Come out to protest Genocide Joe.

People's City Council - Los Angeles

@PplsCityCouncil

7 months

🚨🚨LOCATION REVEAL - GENOCIDE JOE NOT WELCOME IN LA! Leave work early, close your businesses, and get ready to shut it down for Palestine this Friday, December 8th! @palyouthmvmt 3:30pm @ Holmby Park - 601 Club View Dr 90024 #ShutItDown4Palestine #FreePalestine

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4 years

Reading about how former plantations were sold by slave owners to wealthy white Northerners who then used them as vacation retreats and kept them empty for most of the year — and thinking how that relates to vacant super-luxury investment properties today....

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9 months

If you’re in LA on Saturday:

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@jacobwooch

4 years

There are 70,000 unhoused people in LA, and about the same number of vacant hotel rooms. 3 unhoused people die on the street every day. Private property is murder. Capitalism is a murderous system. Don’t stop being outraged about this.

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8 months

Free Palestine!

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

I wrote this to try to explain California’s / LA’s eviction protections as clearly as possible. We have to understand the eviction process to see how these laws are so inadequate. Hope folks can learn from it. Please share with whoever may need it!

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4 years

I hate the idea that YIMBYs and NIMBYs are the opposite of each other. Both are fundamentally committed to housing/land being treated as a commodity produced and distributed through the market.

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8 months

The people protesting at the Grove against genocide in Gaza are heroes. The people calling for a police crackdown on anti-zionist dissent are cowards.

Councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky

@CD5LosAngeles

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I’ve just spoken with Chief Moore and have been in touch with Mayor Bass about the protest in the Fairfax neighborhood. LAPD has declared a tactical alert, and will ensure there is sufficient police support.

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4 years

It’s fucking cold out. People are gonna die tonight because @MayorOfLA refuses to commandeer empty hotel rooms. Blood on Garcetti’s hands.

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Jacob Woocher

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4 years

Hearing that a certain coalition of nonprofits in LA is getting regular meetings with elected officials and NOT pushing for cancel rent. Y’all aren’t representing the tenants movement. You’re selling us out.

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3 years

THE UNITED STATES HAS BEEN OCCUPYING IRAQ FOR 18 YEARS TODAY. Iraq is a country of 30+ million. It has its own institutions, culture, history. It's tempting for white people in the West to think of Iraq as having been a wasteland under Saddam -- far from it.

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The graveyard of LA left politics is littered with the corpses of ‘progressive’ politicians who ended up as right-wing reactionaries, one small compromise at a time.

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1 year

Y'all the social housing motion by Hugo, Nithya, and Eunisses is just a resolution saying "we like social housing." It doesn't even try to commit the city to anything. It doesn't even try to define social housing.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

So LA’s unhoused population increased by 14% and is now way above 60,000. We don’t need “creative solutions.” We need REDISTRIBUTION on a massive scale. Tax the rich, defund the police —> use that money to house people. Anything less is a distraction.

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Jacob Woocher

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10 months

It'd be cool if the 'socialist' councilmember was advocating for public housing rather than the privatized "affordable housing" model that relies on for-profit financiers jumping through 100 different hoops to put together the funding.

Hugo Soto-Martínez

@HugoForCD13

10 months

For years in LA, affordable housing projects on public land have been forced to jump through way more hoops than private developments. Yesterday, we introduced a motion with @mhdcd8 and @CW_HeatherHutt to finally change that. (thread)

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Jacob Woocher

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This is a perfect example of how tenant protections aren’t actually real. The legal system is so inaccessible to the point where most regulations do almost nothing. The people writing policy need to get this.

NPR

@NPR

4 years

A @houstonpubmedia reporter went to four different courthouses last week to observe about 100 eviction cases. Only one renter was able to use the CDC's new ban to block their eviction. So, in 99% of those cases, the order was having no effect at all.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

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Wrote about how Los Angeles is a cautionary tale and is failing tenants: "Even under the best conditions that liberalism and the Democratic Party have to offer, those who don’t own property will be exploited by those who do." @MayorOfLA we see you.

Los Angeles’s ‘Eviction Ban’ Doesn’t Protect Tenants

The city’s emergency measures will only delay a huge wave of evictions until later this year.

www.thenation.com

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

Beware of "progressives" (or even "socialists") who just want to be the next generation of gatekeepers for left-leaning electoral politics. That shit is classist and racist and we should have no tolerance for it.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

It's FUCKING OUTRAGEOUS that @GavinNewsom and @MayorOfLA are opening things back up right now. COVID-19 is spiking in California and LA right now. They are murdering people. Their actions will lead to thousands of more deaths. They should resign.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

Garcetti doubling / tripling down on his police state. Garcetti wants unarmed protestors to be murdered in order to protect rich people’s property.

Marc Brown

@abc7marc

4 years

#BREAKING L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti has called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to deploy National Guard troops in Los Angeles. They could be here in 7 hours at minimum, says @MayorOfLA

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

2 years

The latest numbers show that 115,360 households in the City of Los Angeles are still behind on rent. 141,500 children live in these households.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

2 years

It is very bleak for tenants trying to find lawyers to fight evictions. Basically every nonprofit law firm is completely at capacity. The Stay Housed program has surely helped a lot of people but it’s also enormously inadequate.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

My favorite pho place in LA is called Ktown Pho and I literally can’t help myself from calling it “Ktown Pho All” like every single time. @KtownforAll :)

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

The best thing LA could do to get the state or the federal gov't to CANCEL RENT would be to do it at the city level. Even if they're not sure it's legal, they could go out on a limb for tenants, and put pressure on the state to do so. @MayorOfLA and @CD6Nury are not excused.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

If @MayorOfLA becomes Housing Secretary it’s not because he’s done well at addressing homelessness Los Angeles but because he’s done well at serving the interests of the rich and powerful.

NOlympics LA

@NOlympicsLA

4 years

Everyone in LA knows homelessness has exploded under Garcetti’s watch. He may soon be in charge of housing for the entire country.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

All this energy built up in LA’s left going into electoral fights right now .... wait till after the election and it gets unleashed into other tactics and struggles .... gonna be dope.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

LA HAS 58 BILLIONAIRES BUT INSTEAD OF TAXING THE RICH GARCETTI WANTS TO CUT SERVICES RELIED ON BY POOR PEOPLE

David Zahniser 🦅

@DavidZahniser

4 years

Asked about the city's financial woes, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti said there is "no question" that his upcoming budget will have cuts

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

what is this @MayorOfLA . A pastor who's been outside Garcetti's home protesting inaction on housing residents of Skid Row was arrested on "felony stalking" charges and had bail set at $150,000.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

This should be a massive fucking scandal @MayorOfLA .

NOlympics LA

@NOlympicsLA

4 years

There's no cleaner indicator of the priorities of LA's ruling class than shutting down the largest COVID testing site in LA so the Dodgers could play an intramural game.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

4 years

Cutting bus service is an attack on poor people, period. Could be completely avoided if we defunded the police and/or taxed the rich.

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Jacob Woocher

@jacobwooch

2 years

With the extreme housing crisis after World War II, LA allowed temporary veterans' housing to remain standing for 6 years, finding that "emergency conditions" still existed. There's no reason to end COVID eviction protections so soon.

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