Evictions in Venice at Lincoln Place

Watch Dec. 6, 2006, over 50 households were evicted from their homes by the sheriffs. Now the owner has started eviction proceedings for the last tenants, 40 elderly and disabled households. The tenants are suing the City of LA and will fight the evictions. They want to remain in/return to in their homes. Watch this moving story of the beautiful community of Lincoln Place in Venice, CA

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• Lincoln
• Place
• Ellis
• Act
• evictions
• historic
• preservation

[Winkyburger]

This is a beautiful film that depicts not only the situation at Lincoln Place but the problem of affordable housing all over the country. Time after time, the desire for high profits trumps the basic need for housing and community. The winners are those who make their living from investments; the losers are those who work for a living, the elderly, the young. I find the sense of community and solidarity conveyed by the film very precious and somewhat rare.

[MoiraGene]

Lincoln Place is a micro-cosism of America. Renters must pull together. Corporate greed mongers like AIMCO are ONLY out to make a buck off the backs of poor people. Please give us your support!

[Daboltfan]

They were "bamboozled" by their attorney - the company offered up to $50,000 for these tenants to move, and even relocated MANY who accepted their offer to other senior buildings in California. Their had been 700 apartments, only 83 were evicted...AFTER the L.A. Superior Court ruled to have them evicted.  News Flash- the company is publicly owned, if you have a 401(k), you likely own a piece of it!

[KrissyinLA]

It has or had nothing to do with no liking to move, these people were bamboozled and the city of LA and Venice should be ashamed. Shame on AIMCO and the uncaring way LAPD went about their shitty business.

[smartbits]

Renters have no property rights. I was evicted from a wonderful building in West Los Angeles. They took the doors off the vacant units when a group of us just wanted to stay. It became dangerous and unsanitary. The Ellis act pays tenants up to $17000 to relocate in Los Angeles. This is not a welfare state. No one likes to move, but sometimes you have to.

[TheCephalicCarnage]

Gentrification baby! Fuck poor people, this is capitalist America, we don't need sense of community, equality and the right to own and live in peace, that's commie talk, we should ONLY bail out rich corporations, and give golden parachutes for failure, Venice has something unique, must be destroyed and changed into a monoculture mall for rich folks.

[10fDemdays]

This same situation seems to be happening more and more these days. Its about greed, What makes it worse is when the people being evicted are elderly, Seniors have paid their dues. I'm glad my grand parents own their home's. With a eviction on your record its hard to find housing elsewhere, The people in this video will have a even harder time trying to rent some where else.

[10fDemdays]

You must be a republican, I would hate to think you are a cold hearted or a heartless person by nature. Its wrong to evict people and not re-locate them, especially if they payed their rent on time. Your post is truthful though, But to agree that people should be thrown out on the streets is diabolical to say the least.

[hamam102000]

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[2goaway]

Are you kinding me? You rent you don't own. Just because you've lived there for a number of years doesn't mean you own. If that was the case the court would have granted you to stay. You can try to make a sad movie with sad music but the facts are there and that's life. I rent I don't own. And I know I can be evicted if the landlord doesn't want me here. This is his property and his investment. Not mine. If I want that right I need to buy my own house and make my own rules.

[jwbear61]

The evictions were illegal. AIMCO used the Ellis Act to evict these tenants. The Ellis Act was intended to allow "mom & pop" landlords to get out of the rental business, not for the nations largest apartment corporation to shut down just one of its thousands of properties in order to develop for profit.

Also, Lincoln Place was full of low income families, disabled, and the elderly. How do you expect them to be able to afford to buy houses in LA's market?

Get real.

[brittaincorey]

This is a beautiful video. The evictions at Lincoln Place were a perfect example of what's wrong in America. The tenants KNEW AIMCO was trying to evict them illegally and that according to the letter of the law the corporation did NOT have the right to destroy this community.