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The accelerating eviction of Santa Monica Section 8 tenants whose landlords opt out of HUD contracts is a disgrace and an emergency.

We must immediately find a way to make up the difference between what the truly desperate can afford and their units' costs under Santa Monica rent control, meanwhile lobbying for corrections in federal policies.

An attorney is quoted in your article, "The nice landlords are always the ones who get punished." There's nothing nice, and much shameful, about evicting an elderly or disabled tenant. For some of our aged and ill neighbors, a forced eviction is... let's not mince words... potentially fatal.

Can we as a community work together for no displacements until a long-term solution is found?

Kevin McKeown
Santa Monica

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