COUNTY SUPERVISOR “HOLLY MITCHELL” PARTNERS WITH PREDATORY WELLS FARGO BANK, A FAKE NON-PROFIT (COMMUNITY LAND TRUST), AND A CONVICTED FELON WITH AN AWARD OF $2 MILLION TO DELIBERATELY GENTRIFY THE BLACK LEIMERT PARK COMMUNITY.
LOS ANGELES – In the face of united community opposition, Holly Mitchell manipulated the LA County Board of Supervisors to award $2 million to an unregistered/fake land trust organization run by a recently convicted felon (robbing open houses, etc.). Holly Mitchell and Wells Fargo Banks’s “GENTRIFICATION PLAN” is to destroy the heart of Black business commerce in Los Angeles (Leimert Park). Supervisor Holly Mitchell’s July 26, 2022 motion gives public money to go along with $2.5 million funded by Wells Fargo and Genesis LA (A WHITE so-called NON-CORPORATION) to buy the building, demolish it and displace the legacy Black businesses including Esowon Bookstore and The World Stage.


Related: Letter to the Editor: 2nd District County Supervisor is Failing Us!
The Wells Fargo Bank and HOLLY MITCHELL’S plan is to immediately:
1: REMOVE/Displace all the BLACK businesses
2: Completely tear down the existing building (raze)
3: Erect a “7-STORY MARKET RATE RESIDENTIAL UNIT COMPLEX” the community cannot afford (GENTRIFICATION).
4: Disrupt this fragile commercial corridor of small Black businesses with luxury residential units
5: Damage and disrupt the cultural nature of Leimert Park in the process.
The Black community is currently mobilizing (with boycott campaigns, etc.) against Holly Mitchell and Wells Fargo’s gentrification plans to eliminate Black businesses/people from the area.
For more information go to: https://monsterondegnan.com/
Source: Press Release
**Editor’s note**
Several homeowners associations across the 2nd Supervisorial District continue to voice their displeasure with the representation being provided under Holly J. Mitchell since taking the post after Mark Ridley-Thomas was termed out. Many believe she is “in over her head” and isn’t capable of doing the job which serves over 2 million residents. East Gardena residents are upset with the persistent issues related to homelessness and the residents up in View Park/Windsor Hills/Baldwin Hills, who at one time threatened to incorporate out of the county’s control, have told the LA Times that they have had issues with the areas leadership for what they call “decades”. Going so far to imply that their wealth doesn’t move the needle and are concerned with what’s happening in the rest of South LA.
“If a neighborhood that is financially blessed as we are can’t get the resources to protect our streets, I can’t imagine how other people in South L.A. are feeling and how they can be protected,” said Leon Blum, a View Park-Windsor Hills resident.
That decade of decline would include Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, MRT and Mitchell. It leaves many scratching their heads in bewilderment that they’re working against their OWN interests to maintain Black representation on various elected boards with the leaders only caring about their OWN bottom line.
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Your facts are just wrong. The language you use is to speak about POC is atrocious. Do better.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-07-27/gentrification-leimert-park-black-owners-buy-building-generational-wealth?_amp=true
Tell these politicians to do better.
these are kind of wild takes, i have been in spaces w/ community land trust folks, they are not ‘fake’ and have leadership by people impacted by incarceration which is like… good not bad. is a HOA sponsoring this?
No. The press release was sent to us and we published it.
“Leadership by people impacted by incarceration”? You mean people who are still acting like they are on the prison yard?
“‘Akil’ has mentally, verbally, and physically,sexually abused Black Women who have built what Sole Folks is from the ground up.”
^ This who you talking about?
They just did by supporting the project.
A project led by POC with generational ties to the community which will INCREASE opportunities for Black owned businesses AND provide access to affordable housing for more people than what is currently available in the neighborhood.