Fifteen years ago Los Angeles passed a law to preserve residential hotels as housing of last resort. Now, amid the homelessness crisis, Capital & Main and ProPublica found some hotels may be violating that law by offering rooms to tourists.
They’re claiming a staffing and funding hurdle to get the existing laws enforced. If the department has been starved for funds to the point where it can’t do its job, who made that decision, and more importantly, who donated to their political campaign?
This reeks of backdoor politics on the part of the landlords. De-funding an enforcement agency when a law holds up in court is a tried and true form of regulatory capture.
They’re claiming a staffing and funding hurdle to get the existing laws enforced. If the department has been starved for funds to the point where it can’t do its job, who made that decision, and more importantly, who donated to their political campaign?
This reeks of backdoor politics on the part of the landlords. De-funding an enforcement agency when a law holds up in court is a tried and true form of regulatory capture.
“sabotage a government program and then say the government can’t do anything right” is a commonly talked about right wing strategy.