#  Fighting for the Rights of Los Angeles Housing Providers

     Details    Bill Hooey   ![logo](https://www.citywatchla.com//templates/ja_teline_v/images/logo.png)         January 22 2015       [ARCHIVE](https://www.citywatchla.com/archive)   - [  Previous Article **LA 2020 and Voters Get the Bum’s Rush from Herb Wesson and the City Council** ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8266:la-2020-and-voters-get-the-bum-s-rush-from-herb-wesson-and-the-city-council&catid=16)
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> ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2015/07a.png)VOICES-The Los Angeles Housing Department is a city agency that disregards the law when it comes to dealing with the rights of housing providers and renters. We have a video that shows them involved in criminal activity (video link below).
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> A local landlord who be came tired of the LAHD harassing him for the last ten years so he went to court and won. The court ordered the LAHD to stop harassing him, to leave him alone and not show up at his properties until the next schedule SCEP inspection.
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> The LAHD was furious they were beaten in court so they went before another judge and convinced him to sign an administrative warrant so they could force their way into all the apartment in all of his buildings.
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> Yes, while tenants were not home, the LAHD had a locksmith disable the locks so they could enter their apartments and then there were tenants who were home but would not open the door for the LAHD. The locksmith disabled their locks so the inspectors could walk in. Is this the new America?
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> Apparently the LAHD believes that the US constitution does not apply to them. They believe they have more authority than the Police or the FBI because in order to enter a home or apartment in the USA, law enforcement must have a warrant with the occupant’s name on it.
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> The LAHD’s position is that one warrant gives them the authority to enter every unit in the building.
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> Then why not just get one warrant for the entire city?
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> ● [Watch the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmpdPQOwopo)
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> *(Bill Hooey heads the Fair Housing Coalition. He can be reached at 323.397.8740.)*
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> Pub: Jan 23, 2015

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