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Apr 17, 2023Liked by Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles

I've worked in non profit, lived in Skid Row - The Belly of The Beast, and actually worked for SRHT years ago (NOT a memorable experience).

Esotouric's truthful and powerfully gritty to the bone exposés of not only SRHT but the whole infamous Los Angeles political graft and corruption that's directly connected with housing the homeless and disenfranchised population in Skid Row, is hands down the best I've ever read in all my years! No warning shots fired - Esotouric tell you the factual Truth, NOT what some want you to believe is the Truth! And the Truth stands on its own.

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Thank you, Butch. It means a lot that you think so. Our hope for Skid Row is that it can become a neighborhood again, instead of a sterile, hostile zone controlled by bad non-profits, untrustworthy politicians and opportunistic crime. Maybe not as cool as it was in 1967, but alive again. https://esotouric.com/skidrow1967

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Don't forget ghe Mayor's hand in all these too

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All thieves from City Counci to City Mayor to Governor...ALL THIEVES

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Hello - what's the status of the receivership and what do you think its eventual outcome will be? Will they sell off some or all properties to satisy the ill'-gotten loans, etc.?

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The situation remains quite opaque, with the city having outsourced management of the properties to the receiver. The L.A. Times has reported on concerns about this organization's track record. We hope that there will be regular public updates, transparency and accountability, but past experience shows all of those things are hard to come by. As for ownership of the buildings, that is a giant question mark. One lender has sued already. If there are updates, we'll post them to the blog, so stay tuned to https://esotouric.com/skidrowhousingtrust

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Thanks, Dan--glad this piece resonated with you, and glad to have it out in the world and less on our shoulders. Now it's up to other people to run with it, and we hope make some changes in how things are done. We're probably too opinionated to ever be able to do investigative work under an editor, but the NY Times did hire us to write about L.A. corruption then and now for an advertorial TV promotion piece: https://www.nytimes.com/paidpost/showtime/reforming-the-city-of-angels.html

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