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March 2013
CES Executive Director Interview
Regarding a Report Stating that California is Second Most Expensive State to Rent in the Nation
David Cruz, host of KTLK radio's the David Cruz Show, interviews Coalition for Economic Survival Executive Director Larry Gross on the National Low Income Housing Coalition report stating that a minimum wage worker in California must toil about 130 hours a week in order to feasibly afford a two-bedroom rental.
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February 2013
CES Executive Director Interview
Regarding the Plight of LA Tenants, Displacement Threats Due To
Transit-Oriented Development,
and the Mayoral Election
David Cruz, host of KTLK radio's the David Cruz Show, tells Coalition for Economic Survival Executive Director Larry Gross, that he's David's 'go to guy' when he wants to know wants going on in the streets. Cruz tells his audience that CES does "phenomenal work."
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November 2012
CES Executive Director Interview
Regarding the Nationwide
Walmart Black Friday Protests
Coalition for Economic Survival Executive Director Larry Gross was interviewed on the KTLK's David Cruz radio show regarding the nationwide protest on black Friday by Walmart workers and supporters.
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November 2012
CES On Annenberg Radio News Regarding Proposed Sales Tax Hike On March Ballot
Los Angeles faces a $220 million budget deficit. City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana, says the city's done all the cutting it can, and more revenue is needed to prevent cuts to crucial services.
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July 2012
CES Executive Director Interview
Regarding L.A. City Council's Final
Approval of Parking Ticket Fine Hikes
Coalition for Economic Survival Executive Director Larry Gross was interviewed on the KTLK's David Cruz radio show, again, regarding the Los Angeles City Council giving its final approval to increases in parking ticket fines.
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July 2012
CES Executive Director Interviewed
Regarding L.A. City Council Approving
Parking Ticket Fine Hike
The City Council approved an ordinance to raise parking fines by $5 on Tuesday as part of an overall plan to help balance the city's budget.
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May 2012
CES Executive Director Follow-Up
Interview Regarding L.A. City Raising
of Parking Ticket Fines
Coalition for Economic Survival Executive Director Larry Gross was interviewed on the KTLK's David Cruz radio show, again, regarding the increase to street sweeping parking ticket fines in the City of Los Angeles for the sixth time in the last seven years.
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May 2012
CES Executive Director On KTLA 5 Los Angeles
LA City Council Votes to Raise Parking Tickets But Cut the Increase.
Further Reductions of the Increases Possibly As Council Agrees With CES on Inequities.
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May 2012
CES Executive Director Larry Gross on KPFK Radio FM 90.7!
CES Executive Director Interview Regarding L.A. City Plan to Raise Parking Ticket Fees
Coalition for Economic Survival Executive Director Larry Gross was featured on Truthdig Radio on KPFK 90.7 FM on May 10, 2012. Truthdig editor Peter Scheer hosted the program report on the City of Los Angeles’ plan to increase parking ticket fees for the sixth time in the last seven years.
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May 2012
CES Executive Director On NBC 4 Los Angeles
Mayor's Budget Calls for $10 Hike in Parking Fines
Facing a $238 million budget deficit, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is calling for a $10 hike in parking fines.
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May 2012
CES Featured on Univision 34 Los Angeles
Villaraigosa Propone Un Aumento De $10 En Las Multas De Estacionamiento
El alcalde Antonio Villaraigosa propuso un aumento de $10 en las multas de estacionamiento "para preservar servicios vitales en la ciudad". Sin embargo, no todos están de acuerdo con el plan. Annabelle Sedano con el informe.
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May 2012
CES Executive Director Larry Gross on KTLK Radio AM 1150!
CES Executive Director Interview
Regarding L.A. City Plan to Raise
Parking Ticket Fees
Coalition for Economic Survival Executive Director Larry Gross was interviewed on the KTLK’s David Cruz radio show regarding the proposal to increase parking ticket fees in the City of Los Angeles for the sixth time in the last seven years.
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May 2012
CES Executive Director Larry Gross Featured on 89.3 KPCC
Villaraigosa Wants To Charge You Even More For Parking Tickets
A daily drama plays out on the streets of Los Angeles as drivers with limited parking options scramble out of bed to beat the parking police before street sweeping restrictions kick in.
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April 2012
CES On Free Speech Radio News!
Free Speech Radio News Reports on CES’ Battle Against Landlord’s Rent Only Online Policy
Free Speech Radio News (FSRN) reports on CES’ campaign to oppose a landlord’s attempt to forces their tenants to pay their rent only online. FSRN is an independently produced half hour daily national and international radio news program focusing on peace and social justice issues in the US and around the world.
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March 2012
CES Executive Director Larry Gross on KTLK Radio AM 1150!
CES Exec Dir Debates Lancaster Mayor
Over City’s Attacks on Section 8 Tenants
Officials of the City of Lancaster in the high desert area of Los Angeles County has been waging a war against low-income Section 8 rent subsidy tenants for some time. Lancaster officials have attempted to reduce the number of its Section 8 tenants by accusing them of being responsible for crime in the area, hiring housing authority inspectors to intimidate and harass them and attempting to pass laws to deny business licenses to landlords who accept Section 8 vouchers. These actions have created an atmosphere of fear for low income tenants and has even result in physical attacks to Section 8 renters.
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March 2012
CES Executive Director Larry Gross on Up-Rising Radio!
Los Angeles Tenants Face High Rents,
Little Legal Help
Being a renter in Los Angeles can be difficult, but a group of local tenants are suing their landlord because they say the company is making it impossible to do the most basic thing a tenant does — pay rent. In September 2011 the Jones and Jones Property management company notified tenants at its 300-unit south LA Woodlake Manor Apartments that it would only accept online rent payments.* The Coalition for Economic Survival and Bet Tzedek Legal Services announced last week that a lawsuit against Jones and Jones was filed on behalf of the tenants, who want to retain the right to pay rent by more traditional means. Many of the plaintiffs are elderly, and some are self-identified as "computer-illiterate."
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March 2012
CES Executive Director Larry Gross Featured on 89.3 KPCC
The Economy Is A Little Better; Time To Pay More Rent!
Housing prices are down, mortgage holders are underwater, construction is slow – this is the standard set of facts when it comes to reporting on housing in the United States post-2008.
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December 2011
CES Featured on WBAI Radio 99.5 FM in New York!
The Latest on the Fight to Ensure Tenants' Rights in L.A.
Housing Notebook - December 26, 2011
Scott Sommer celebrated the 27th anniversary of his hosting the show by interviewing Coalition for Economic Survival Executive Director Larry Gross on the latest West Coast landlord shenanigans and tenants' rights victories.
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May 2011
CES Debates the Apartment Association on KFWB Money 101
Money 101 with Bob McCormick, May 23, 2011
CES Executive Director Larry Gross faced off with Ryan Minniear, Executive Director of the California Apartment Association debating tenants' rights issues... Read more and listen to the audio here... |
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May 2010
Crowd angers as council balks on rent control
KABC 7 News, May 21, 2010
Rent rage breaks out prompting police to respond to a Los Angeles City Council meeting, after council members fail to take action on a proposed rent-hike moratorium. Read more and view the video here... |
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May 2010
CES Featured on WBAI Radio 99.5 FM in New York!
The Fight to Win a Rent Freeze in L.A.
Housing Notebook - May 10, 2010
Scott Sommer was joined by Larry Gross of the Coalition for Economic Survival to discuss the progress of the campaign for a rent freeze in Los Angeles.
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May 2010
CES Battles The Apartment Assocation Over a Rent Freeze Motion in the City of LA on KCRW's "Which Way L.A.?"
Larry Gross, Executive Director of the Coalition for Economic Survival
Jim Clarke, Executive Director, Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles
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May 2010
CES Debates Merits of Rent Freeze on KPCC's AirTalk Radio Program
CES Executive Director takes on a representative of the California Apartment Association debating why the Los Angeles City Council needs to pass a freeze on the 3% rent increase to tenants living in L.A.'s 630,000 rent control units slated for July 1, 2010.
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December 2008
Housing Notebook: Los Angeles Tenants' Rights Victories
Scott Sommer hosts Larry Gross of the Coalition for Economic Survival, who talks about recent eviction protections won for LA tenants facing owner & owner relative move-ins and for tenants living in rental properties that have been foreclosed. Read more here... |
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December 2008.
L.A. City Helping Tenants of Foreclosed Properties
CES Executive Director Larry Gross provides a response to Channel 11 Fox News immediately after the Los Angeles City votes to extend rent control eviction protections to all rental units in the City, providing CES and other tenant organzations a tremendous tenants' rights victory. View the video here... |
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