3327-3329 East Darwin Avenue is a rent-stabilized 1941 Spanish duplex near Lincoln Park. ZIMAS says it was used for housing within the past 5 years and that it’s subject to the Housing Element (i.e. replacement required).
It was sold last year - to someone who does NOT have a replacement project lined up. They want to tear it down anyway.
That is NOT supposed to happen with RSO housing - and I’d sure like to know what happened to the tenants.
If this bothers you (and it should!), contact Ysabel Jurado’s office (councilmember.jurado@lacity.org). The good people of Lincoln Heights do NOT deserve to see a perfectly good duplex replaced with a dirt lot (no Angeleno deserves that).
The duplex is 1713 square feet, not including the detached 400 square foot garage - not big, but big enough for two households. Here’s a radical idea: why doesn’t the owner donate it to displaced Altadenans? I don’t approve of subtracting RSO housing from Lincoln Heights, especially with zero plans for replacement, but at least the duplex wouldn’t go to waste if it was moved. (If you are the owner, please fill this out.)
A lovely multi-family home in a great location, and a rare instance of wartime development in 90031. Thanks to policy work by Kevin de Leon's team that went largely unreported, no RSO unit in Boyle Heights can be demolished or tenants evicted until there's a community plan in place to ensure protections--and Ysabel Yurado just extended that policy. Why should the neighboring community lose desperately needed attractive housing for nothing? That roof alone!