Earlier this 12 months, code enforcement officers on the metropolis of Los Angeles cleared the Chesapeake Residences in South L.A. after a required inspection that was supposed to make sure its rental items have been liveable. The complicated has 425 residences and takes up a number of metropolis blocks.
However the metropolis’s clear invoice of well being belied the quite a few issues with mould, sewage leaks, defective smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and different points that tenants say have plagued the huge complicated for years. Past that, a 2020 investigation in LAist discovered Chesapeake Residences’ proprietor has been accused by tenants and a number of authorities businesses of permitting comparable situations throughout a greater than $1-billion actual property empire that’s centered in Southern California.
On this episode of “Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Disaster Podcast,” we focus on the situations at Chesapeake Residences and the way metropolis and county inspectors missed deep issues there. Our visitor is Aaron Mendelson, the LAist reporter who wrote about issues on the buildings owned by Pama Properties and its president Mike Nijjar.
“Gimme Shelter,” a biweekly podcast that appears at why it’s so costly to stay in California and what the state can do about it, options Liam Dillon, who covers housing affordability points for the Los Angeles Occasions, and Manuela Tobías, housing reporter for CalMatters.
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