Racist Recording: Renters at the Center of the Debate of the City Hall Scandal

It might seem like an issue about the racism that came up in the recordings in which three L.A. councilmen. and a labor leader, lash out at whites, indigenous people, and other ethnic groups.
However, one of the issues that came up is how the distribution of the city’s districts could target renters in the different areas of the city.
In a City Council where the conflict between developers and political favors have been at the center of the scandal for several years -the most recent, that of former councilman José Huizar, who is accused of receiving millions of dollars to favor some construction projects in the city center – the subject came up again in those conversations.
According to articlehealthcenter.com, “the topic of what to do with Koreatown comes up in the audio leak, and the quartet immediately reaches the consensus that they do not want to give it to Councilmember Nithya Raman.
“It’s worth mentioning that Cedillo’s opponent in the 1st Council District race in June, eventual winner Eunisses Hernandez, painted him as pro-developer and anti-renter. The audio suggests it was a fair attack.
“It serves us to not give her all of K-Town,” Martinez said. “Because if you do, that solidifies her de ella renters’ district, and that is not a good thing for any of us. You have to keep her on the fence.”
The implication that a “renters’ district” would be a blow to their broader mission of empowering Latinxs is particularly baffling given how many Latinx households in L.A. are tenants.”
This can be interpreted as the efforts of a council that seeks to favor developers and limit the growing movement of renters in the current chaotic situation, where renting a home has become inaccessible if you cannot pay up to 50 percent of the income of a family or individual.

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Racist Recording: Renters at the Center of the Debate of the City Hall Scandal

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