STOP Hollywood Housing in constructing a 64 Unit Complex  2614 Flower St, Walnut Park, CA 90255.

The why

Walnut Park, CA already has low ownership rates, little access to working class jobs and lackluster education, prostitution problems, crumbling infrastructure and high traffic. Building a Low Income/ Homeless 64 Unit Complex will grow these problems. This construction will come at a cost to our community for future generations to come, not to mention countless more structures to be proposed and built unless we act now!

IMPORTANT TAKEAWAYS

1. It affects education for new generations.

A. Education programs need to be updated, classrooms are unfit for student curriculums. Filling up nearby schools with more student’s means less attention per student which increases the rate of failure of a system that is already plagued with underpaid teachers and overfilled classrooms.

2.Creates competition in the limited job market in the surrounding areas

A. Walnut Park, CA and the surrounding communities lack a diversity of good jobs with fair paying wages. To introduce and welcome more people means current citizens will have more competition for a short supply of jobs.

3. Crumbling infrastructure

Our infrastructure is failing, roads have not been fixed for years, there is trash dumped everywhere; speeding is allowed virtually in every street in Walnut Park, CA at dangerous levels. Prostitution has been roaming the streets late at night and into the early evening near elementary schools for about 25 years now and Hilda Solis has not done anything about it. Building a Low Income/ Homeless 64 unit in an overcrowded neighborhood means these issues will not only worsen they will keep launch our community into a downward spiral out of control, affecting future generations for years to come. 

4. Traffic

Walnut Park is already a town plagued with traffic. Bringing in more buildings will lead to more traffic issues such as slower work commutes, more potholes in our roads, minimal parking, reckless driving and inaccessibility to a better life. 

5. Overpopulated and overwhelming

A city that has a growing trajectory of citizens Walnut Park is overwhelmed with the amount of citizens it can support. To bring in one building, opens the door to developers looking to take advantage of California Senate Bill 35 to build more.  Help us in preserverving our community and preventing from city officials and developers from taking advantage of a community that has struggled to better itself. 

KEEP READING...

Building a Low Income/Homeless 64 Unit Building will further grow the issues we have yet to address. Our focus should be in taking care of the community we have as it stands, not saturating it with more people than it can handle.

Hollywood Housing has been secretive and deceptive in how they communicate with the community. If they know it’s a good thing for the community why did they propose not to tell the community beforehand and keep it secret?

If homelessness issues are a shared problem in Los Angeles, why are they only being built in areas with High Crime, Few Jobs and Struggling Schools?

Complexes should be built all around in Los Angeles County including areas that are financially well off and can provide a better opportunity for low-income tenants.

If low-income structures keep being built in impoverished areas it will keep low income families locked in a concentrated area, which means it will also keep out people with disposable income from being able to move in and investing in low income communities therefore missing out on any opportunities of economic growth.

Help us in stopping this complex in its tracks and help us start the regrowth and revitalization of Walnut Park, CA. Tax credits should be there to intertwine our communities in a balance that equals a better outcome for all. Not to create pockets of poverty where we are economically segregated.

Contact and email those in charge to voice your opinion

Supervisor Hilda L. Solis-213-974-4111 Email: firstdistrict@bos.lacounty.gov

Hollywood Community Housing-(323) 454-6206

Riddhi Chakraborty (Project Manager)-rchakraborty@hollywoodhousing.org

Guadalupe Camberos Field Deputy- Chair Pro Tem Hilda L. Solis

SouthEast Los Angeles District Office

(323) 826-6370

Elza Rodriguez- Los Angeles County Regional Planning Staff

(213) 893-7452

Research by Pro-Publica showcases the validity of these points  (Follow the link for full research breakdown)

https://www.propublica.org/article/separated-by-design-why-affordable-housing-is-built-in-areas-with-high-crime-few-jobs-and-struggling-schools

"In 2008, a community group in Texas pressed that case against the state’s Housing Department, arguing in a lawsuit that the agency had violated the Fair Housing Act by concentrating low-income housing tax credits in the Dallas metro area. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed, ruling that there are limits to building subsidized housing in mostly impoverished neighborhoods because the practice has a “disparate impact” on minorities."

"This type of placement system discriminates against poor people. Forcing these people to live in communities that don’t have the level of resources needed to educate their kids."

"Its essentially just warehousing low income people "

"These complexes should be built in "High Opportunity" communities with good schools and low crime rates."

"However a map shows that low income housing is typically built in low income areas; That means high crime, low homeownership rates, little access to working-class jobs and lackluster school performance."