{"id":1361316,"date":"2022-03-06T18:38:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T23:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1361316"},"modified":"2022-03-06T18:38:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T23:38:48","slug":"judge-claims-of-gentrification-cannot-stop-new-development-in-south-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-claims-of-gentrification-cannot-stop-new-development-in-south-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge: Claims of \u2018Gentrification\u2019 Cannot Stop New Development in South Los Angeles\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-claims-of-gentrification-cannot-stop-new-development-in-south-los-angeles%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1361316&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-507719244-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A judge with California\u2019s Second District Court of Appeal <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/california\/court-of-appeal\/2022-b309288.pdf?ts=1646330485\">ruled<\/a> on Thursday that revitalizing neighborhoods with nice housing and shops \u2014 what critics charge is \u201cgentrification\u201d \u2014 does not violate fair housing laws.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Crenshaw Subway Coalition filed a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles, challenging the project.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Judge Brian Hoffstadt, a <a href=\"https:\/\/trellis.law\/judge\/brian.m.hoffstadt\">Democrat<\/a>, wrote:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Coalition\u2019s gentrification theory implicates issues of urban renewal, socioeconomic inequality, and racial injustice. How to balance the social benefits of revitalizing blighted neighborhoods against the resulting social costs of gentrification is a question for our elected officials\u2014not for this court. Elected officials are the ones who must grapple with these issues in deciding which projects to approve, where they should be sited, and how to mitigate the potential negative impacts of those projects on the surrounding neighborhoods by requiring or incentivizing developers to take actions that benefit local residents (such as setting aside affordable housing or employing local labor)\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Our task is much more limited: We decide only whether the claims that the Coalition alleged in the operative complaint are legally cognizable under the Fair Housing Act and FEHA\u2026.[T]he Inclusive Communities decision by the United States Supreme Court dictates the conclusion that they are not.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The plaintiffs claimed in the suit that developing the neighborhood would drive blacks and Latinos out because property values would go up, the <em>Metropolitan News-Enterprise<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metnews.com\/articles\/2022\/DISPARATETAX_030422.htm\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The $1.2 billion project, which is to include high-rise condominiums, a hotel, and shops, is slated to be constructed near Leimert Park on a 43-acre parcel south of 39th Street, bordered on the east by Crenshaw Boulevard, on the south by Stocker Street, and on the west by Santa Rosalia Drive and Marlton Avenue. It is presently the site of the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>The Crenshaw Subway Coalition contends that the project, approved by the City of Los Angeles, is violative of the federal Fair Housing Act (\u201cFHA\u201d) and California\u2019s Fair Employment and Housing Act Fair Employment and Housing Act (\u201cFEHA\u201d).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The development would include stores, restaurants, a 400-unit hotel, 551 condos, and 410 apartments \u2014 10 percent would priced for low- and moderate-income residents, the <em>San Francisco Chronicle <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/Residents-can-t-use-gentrification-fears-to-16975749.php?sid=5d54065e91d15c7b08162233&#038;utm_source=newsletter&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_content=headlines&#038;utm_campaign=sfc_morningfix\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Chronicle<\/em> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Damien Goodmon, executive director of the neighborhood group, said it would appeal to the state Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf allowed to stand, the decision would cut off the right of the public and policymakers to enact statutory tools to combat racism and protect sensitive Black and Brown communities from displacement and erasure,\u201d Goodmon said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Casey, a lawyer for the developer, said he hoped the ruling will \u201cput an end to those disrupters who continually attempt to get in the way of the community\u2019s desire for progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The case is<em> Crenshaw Subway Coalition v. City of Los Angeles <\/em>in the Second District Court of Appeal, 2022 S.O.S. 930.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Penny Starr on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PennyStarrDC\">Twitter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge with California\u2019s Second District Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday that revitalizing neighborhoods with nice housing and shops \u2014 what critics charge is \u201cgentrification\u201d \u2014 does not violate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1361316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}