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Los Angeles Notes

https://www.facebook.com/ConsciousTravel/posts/1633762509971241



‎ [|Susan Hunter] ‎ //__to__// [|Conscious Travel]
[|40 mins] ·

 Planning on taking a vacation? That must be nice. The tenants of LA would like to take a vacation too, but we can’t. We have to spend every waking hour fighting to stay in our homes. So what’s causing this problem? You. It’s nothing personal, but you coming here to LA to vacation is taking away our homes. You see, the city has determined that tourists are more important than our own working families. Do you know what it’s like to wonder if you’re going to get a letter on your door that says you have 60 days to get out because your apartment is now going to be someone else’s vacation rental ? Imagine having to live under that kind of stress. It’s a lot, but it’s happening more and more in Los Angeles. We don’t want you to have to walk by an old woman sleeping in the streets and wonder if the charming “boutique” hotel you are staying in used to be the home she could afford, because the answer is “most likely”. Look, we didn’t want it to have to come to this either, but we aren’t left with much of a choice. Our city is a hot mess and we just need you to not come here. 50% of our population is struggling under minimum wage and out of control rents. Our schools and infrastructure are breaking. Police are shooting unarmed civilians. Quite frankly, we could be one more incident away from a full blown riot. You don’t want to be here with you families if a riot happens, and neither do we, but there is a lot of frustration building in our working and poor families that the city just keeps ignoring. Instead they keep pushing us further and further by threatening our homes. The city is creating a usage that would force tenants to have to rent their own homes back on home sharing sites. And they are doing it for you. You are the only one who can stop this by sending a clear message that you support working families. Think of this as the easiest protest you have ever been apart of. Just take you vacation somewhere else. Besides, this can help prevent you from a lot of scams that are happening all over the city, like the “Dream Hotel” that isn’t even open but is taking non-refundable bookings. That’s right, you could be paying to stay in a hotel that you can’t even stay in. That’s how bad things have gotten here. If you want beaches, go to San Diego. If you want Harry Potter and Universal Studios, go to Florida. If you want stars, go to Wyoming, we hear they have a lot of them. If you want Celebrities, go to New York, honestly you’re just as likely to see them there too. If you want to be discovered, walking around Hollywood wouldn’t do it anyway. Go to a great acting school, develop your craft, and get an agent. We’re not saying we can’t ever have a relationship again, but for now, it’s better for both of us if you start seeing other cities. We just have a lot we need to focus on ourselves right now so that we can be the city you imagine us to be. For now, we just need to be FB friends. While this letter might be funny, it is serious. Please don’t come to LA. Thanks,

The Los Angeles Tenants Union http://www.latenantsunion.org/about https://www.facebook.com/latenantsunion/