At 10 00 a. M. Eastern on book tv, cspan2. House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters held a field hearing on combating homelessness in the Los Angeles Metro area and its impact on a massive a national level. Officialsrnment participated in the hearing to discuss Affordable Housing. The committee on Financial Services will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Not on of the house were the Floor Committee are authorized to participate fully in the hearing and members of the local media may engage in audio and visual coverage of the proceedings. Any recording of todays proceedings are solely to educate, enlighten, and inform the consideration of legislative issues as well as developing an understanding and perspective of the house of representatives and its role in our government. Coverage may not be used for any partisan Political Campaign purpose or be made available for such purpose. Finally, i want to welcome hearing,udie
The committee on Financial Services will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Not on of the house were the Floor Committee are authorized to participate fully in the hearing and members of the local media may engage in audio and visual coverage of the proceedings. Any recording of todays proceedings are solely to educate, enlighten, and inform the consideration of legislative issues as well as developing an understanding and perspective of the house of representatives and its role in our government. Coverage may not be used for any partisan Political Campaign purpose or be made available for such purpose. Finally, i want to welcome hearing,udience to the which we will conduct under the rules of house of representatives. This is entitled examining the homelessness crisis in los angeles. I give myself five minutes to give an opening statement. Again, good morning to everyone. Welcome to the committee on Financial Services field hearing.
As well. Trent reimbursed that coworker for the cost of the d. R. With a check that contained the wording reimburse for d. R. In the memo line the coworker brought that check to the deposition and the city is in possession of a copy of it. That coworker testified she didnt know what discretionary review means as well. Another tenant stated in his deposition that he was contacted by a representative of the defendants on three occasions that provided him with a list of talking points and asked that they use those talking points to form the basis of the Public Comments to you all at Previous Commission hearings regarding this application. In short, they imposed their own application to legalize their properties and attempted to cover it up. When you consider they filled in october, 2016, and its now november, 2017, theyve been successful delaying this for 13 months. The only plausible reason to do this is to delay enforcement, collect rent, and to conceal their identity. It would be more
Maybe on the inside. Who knows. They dont affect us or better us in any way. Thats what we care about at the end of the day. We definitely get the worst of it. You did hear a recording from cap street. You should hear it on Mission Street next door to them. Its literally ridiculous. So i could go on. There are other things that happen as well at the business from customers vomitting in our doorway and they only come from that bar. There are two other bars on the block. Never come from them. There are people that do all kinds of stuff and its only from that bar. I know im on a time limit here. I hope you consider this. I know they have pros to them, but i hope you consider the cons as well. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good evening, commissioner. Nice to see you, and, again, thanks for your services. Im al sharwa, doing business in mission for 35 years. And im very protective of our mission community. Im about a block away from the bar that theyre talking about, teeth. And
Legalization process is there is a legal strategy involved. If theyre not involved in the process, they can blame city bureaucracy for the 13month delay infixing their Code Violations and say bureaucracy held up the legalization process and that they shouldnt have to pay the penalties that accrue for the Code Violations. While this d. R. Has been pending, wu and zu have made no progress to legalizing the profit and the tenant victims live in substandard, uninspected housing. Our office has personally met with tenants along with personnel from the planning department, building department, and the Mayors Office, and were going to continue to provide all the help we can to provide adequate housing in the event that they need to find new housing. Thank you. Thank you. And i believe ms. Cohen from the department of homelessness im emily cohen, department of homelessness and Supportive Housing, and im here to share with you our plan for serving any of the households that may be displaced dur