That’s the Constitution!”Such “right to return” agreements with tenants remain rare, but some L.A. developers have dangled the offer to ease concerns at City Hall about tear-downs driving out poor tenants as new buildings replace older, rent-stabilized apartments. “If tenants intend to return to the project, we are simply asking them to not do anything that could jeopardize or impede our progress,” Casper said. At a Wednesday meeting at a Hollywood church, Hernandez and other members of the Crossroads Tenants Assn. The tenants, Seward argued, do not have to be “silenced” to exercise their right to come back, since it was enshrined in the city conditions for the new project. Casper said that tenants had only been offered “additional considerations” beyond the basic right to return because the foundation had suggested it would drop the suit if they did.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 23, 2019 18:33 UTC