Slumlord and Housing Conditions:

HSKRR represents low income tenants in their struggles to obtain clean and safe housing. We presently represent tenants forced to live in substandard conditions in the Westlake region of Los Angeles, thereby endangering not only their own health and safety but also members of the public with whom they interact at work and school. With the Inner City Law Center, Hadsell & Stormer co-counseled Pineda v. Wallman, a case in which an entire apartment complex collapsed due to neglected maintenance, killing one man, injuring numerous others and displacing the more than 100 people who lived in the building.


In 2009, Current and former landlords of an apartment building who allowed the property to fall into egregious disrepair agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle a habitability suit brought by HSKRR. The building had become a severe danger to the tenants.