Housing Long Beach is holding a demonstration at a local property management company to protest displacement, gentrification, rent gouging, and other issues that are plaguing Long Beach renters. “Long Beach renters are being robbed in broad daylight” according to Josh Butler, Executive Director of Housing Long Beach, who added, “the lack of action from our leadership is akin to aiding and abetting this crime against our neighbors.”
On July 11 a little-noticed agenda item among 18 others on the city council’s consent calendar was passed without a single councilmember asking for discussion.
The council’s unanimous yes vote cost taxpayers $2.477 million.
