Are you worried about how foreclosed homes are blighting our neighborhoods? Then visit LAHoodwinked.com, where you can join Angelenos who are demanding banks maintain properties so taxpayers aren’t stuck with the bill for cleaning up bank-owned houses.
Vacant foreclosures can invite crime and drag down property values, and the cost of maintaining them is contributing to LA’s budget crisis. There are more than 40,000 foreclosures in the City of Los Angeles alone.
At LAHoodwinked.com you can:
- Look up homes in your neighborhood to find out if they are bank-owned
- Report homes with serious health and safety problems including overgrown weeds, trash or unmaintained pools
- Upload photos of blighted houses in the City of Los Angeles
Under state law, banks could be forced to pay up to $1,000 per day for unkempt houses. The proposal is part of the Strong Budget proposed by city workers to generate revenue for city services.
City Workers, Neighborhoods Advocates and Elected Officials Launch Clean-Up Drive
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City workers, neighborhood advocates and elected officials announced the website Thursday, April 29, in Canterbury Knolls, a neighborhood in South LA that has been ravaged by hundreds of foreclosures. Here’s what they said:
“Forcing banks to properly maintain foreclosed homes will keep us all safer and free firefighters up for other, unavoidable emergencies.” – Chuong Ho, a firefighter in South Los Angeles.
“The Eighth District leads the City in foreclosures, and we can no longer allow banks to act solely in their own financial interest while disregarding the consequences for the community.” – Councilmember Bernard C. Parks
“We’re tired of big banks hoodwinking our city and helping plunge LA into an economic crisis.” – Bob Schoonover, president of SEIU Local 721
Visit LAHoodwinked.com. Here’s what you’ll see:
