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At a May 27, 2022 meeting, the Los Angeles City Council voted in favor of evoking eminent domain in order to seize a 124-unit Chinatown apartment building, Hillside Villa, from its landlord.

In a major win for residents of an affordable building in L.A.’s Chinatown, the city will bid on the 124-unit apartment complex to prevent a drastic rent increase.

Also: San Francisco aims to end trans homelessness by 2027 and LA City Council votes to acquire a 127-unit Chinatown apartment building through eminent domain.

City Council voted to try to buy a 124-unit housing development in Chinatown in an effort to keep some of the tenants housed amid rent increases by their landlord, who does not want to sell the building to the city.

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles City Council voted on Friday, May 27, to try to buy a 124-unit housing ...

The landlord says the plan to take over his building “makes no sense.” But tenants fear they’ll end up homeless if the city doesn’t intervene.

The Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to try to buy a 124-unit housing development in Chinatown in an effort to keep some of the tenants housed amid rent increases by their landlord, who does not want to sell the building to the city.

The City Council Friday will consider trying to purchase a 124-unit housing development in Chinatown in an effort to keep some of the tenants housed amid rent increases by their landlord.

In some cases, tenants said their rents have more than tripled since the start of the pandemic.