CONDO RELOCATION PLAN HAS 2 TIERS.Byline: KERRY CAVANAUGH Staff Writer Poor and longtime long·time adj. Having existed or persisted for a long time: a longtime friend; a longtime resident of Detroit. longtime Adjective tenants evicted to make way for condominium condominium In modern property law, individual ownership of one dwelling unit within a multidwelling building. Unit owners have undivided ownership interest in the land and those portions of the building shared in common. conversions would get more relocation RELOCATION, Scotch law, contracts. To let again to renew a lease, is called a relocation. 2. When a tenant holds over after the expiration of his lease, with the consent of his landlord, this will amount to a relocation. money than newer tenants under a plan approved Tuesday by a City Council committee. The two-tier relocation was proposed by City Councilman Herb Wesson Herb J. Wesson, Jr. is a California politician. He currently serves as a Los Angeles City Councilman. He represents the 10th district. He served in the State Assembly representing the 47th district from 1998 until 2004. after developers and property owners complained about an earlier plan to pay the same pricey Pricey Term used for an unrealistically low bid price or unrealistically high offer price. pricey Of, relating to, or being an unrealistically high offer. An offer to sell a security at $50 when the current market price is $47 is pricey. relocation package to all tenants regardless of how long they had rented their unit. "I want to increase relocation fees for everyone. I also want to do it in a way that is fair to tenants and fair to everyone. This is a quantum leap quantum leap n. An abrupt change or step, especially in method, information, or knowledge: "War was going to take a quantum leap; it would never be the same" Garry Wills. in comparison to where we were nine months ago," said Wesson, who heads the council's Housing Committee. Under his proposal, low-income tenants and those who had lived in their unit at least five years would receive the highest fees: $9,040 for most tenants and $17,080 for qualified tenants, including the disabled, elderly or parents of small children. Tenants who have lived in the unit for less than five years would receive $6,810, with qualified tenants receiving $14,850. The current relocation fees are $8,550 for qualified tenants and $3,450 for all others. Both tiers were increased to reflect the high cost of moving and finding comparable rentals in the city's tight market. But the Housing Department and renter advocates warned that the system gives property owners incentive to discriminate dis·crim·i·nate v. dis·crim·i·nat·ed, dis·crim·i·nat·ing, dis·crim·i·nates v.intr. 1. a. against low-income tenants and evict longtime renters before applying for a condominium conversion. "This puts a bull's-eye on the backs of tenants," said Deanna Kitamura of the Western Center on Law and Poverty. Wesson and his colleagues approved a six-month review to make sure tenants aren't being cheated. City leaders have been studying how to balance property rights and tenant protections in response to 12,000 evictions in the past five years. In addition to new rules limiting conversions and raising the cost of converting a unit to a condominium, the City Council committee wanted to address evictions and apartment demolitions. Wesson's proposal calls for a new law that would allow the city to deny a demolition Demolition is the opposite of construction: the tearing-down of buildings and other structures. It contrasts with deconstruction, which is the taking down of a building while carefully preserving valuable elements for re-use. permit if the vacancy rate in a neighborhood is below 5 percent and the demolition would have a significant effect on the rental market. kerry.cavanaugh(at)dailynews.com (213) 978-0390 |
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