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Larry Gross is the Executive Director of the Coalition for Economic Survival (CES). He has been with CES for over 36 years, since its inception in 1973. CES is a grassroots, multi-racial, multi-ethnic tenants' rights organization serving low and moderate income renters throughout the greater Los Angeles area. CES is committed to organizing tenants to fight to ensure tenants' rights and preserve affordable housing.

Among CES' impressive track record of empowering tenants, securing concrete victories and achieving institutional change include leading campaigns to win rent control in the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood. CES also led the effort to incorporate the City of West Hollywood and elected CES tenant leaders to the City Council.

Larry was a member of the Los Angeles City Housing Crisis Task Force and served as the chair of its State of Existing Affordable Housing Sub-committee.

He was appointed by the Mayor and Chairperson of the L.A. City Council Housing and Community Development Committee to serve on the Advisory Committee for the Study of the Economic Impact of Major Rehabilitation Evictions.

Larry was a member of L.A. City Council President Eric Garcetti's Slum Housing Task Force was an appointee to the City Rent Stabilization Ordinance Study Oversight Committee by the L.A. City Council.

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
West Hollywood: City Built on Rent Control Celebrates 25th Anniversary
(1 comments) Twenty-five years ago members of the Coalition for Economic Survival (CES) rejoiced after a 7-year campaign to secure tenants' rights and preserve affordable housing in the then 1.9 square mile LA County unincorporated area of West Hollywood.

Saturday, November 7, 2009
United Nations Investigates Affordable Housing Crisis in LA
(2 comments) The United Nations Investigates Affordable Housing Crisis in LA and Across US The severe impact of the US housing crisis on low- and moderate-income peoHousing A Rightple has become so great that even the United Nations decided the situation has warranted an investigation. As a result, the UN dispatched a Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Raquel Rolnik, on a multi-US city fact-finding mission.

Monday, October 12, 2009
PEOPLE'S VICTORY!! US Court of Appeals Rules to Protect Section 8 Tenants
The Coalition for Economic Survival (CES) scored a major tenants' rights victory when the 9th Circuit US Court of Appeals ruled that Los Angeles' rent control law is not preempted by federal laws or regulations. The decision, which has a national impact, specially provides Section 8 tenants living at Morton Gardens Apartments in the L.A. neighborhood of Echo Park protection against their landlord's attempt to evict them.

 

 

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