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Thursday, April 30, 2009

Landlord Frank McHugh lives above rules and regulations

April 26, 2009 -

By fall 2006, community organizers at the tenants rights group Strategic Actions for a Just Economy, known as SAJE, launched a campaign against McHugh.

Representatives of the group met with McHugh but said he did not fulfill their demands for repairs. They decided to target him with public protests, including one last Halloween when tenants trekked from their rundown units near downtown to McHugh's condo in Marina del Rey. The children dressed as cockroaches and adults held signs declaring McHugh L.A.'s "Worst Landlord."

A year before that protest, SAJE got the attention of prosecutors. A newly appointed manager in the housing unit of the city attorney's office met with McHugh tenants and taught them how to file complaints with city and county regulatory agencies -- and also referred 15 properties for inspection by a special city-county slum housing task force.

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