To the editor: Your article on vandalized mansions within the Hollywood Hills illustrates one side of how wealth inequality exacerbates our complicated housing scarcity.
The proprietor of those two single-family residences doesn’t dwell in both, and each have apparently been vacant for years. Whereas this case is newsworthy for the neglect of the properties by their proprietor and the unlucky publicization of those properties as targets for varied miscreants, it’s not that uncommon for superwealthy people to personal a number of properties, a few of which they hardly ever, if ever, use.
Sure, it’s a free nation and all that. However I can’t assist feeling a twinge of guilt by generational affiliation once I see how society’s skill to share, empathize and average our habits has devolved on my cohort’s watch.
Susan Wolfson, Glendale
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To the editor: I used to be struck by two current tales of vandalized mansions, and by the way in which Bel-Air resident Fred Rosen, one-time chief govt of Ticketmaster, positioned blame on “woke” Los Angeles leaders for lapses in safety.
I’d place extra scrutiny on the seemingly nonchalant skill of the moneyed few to let invaluable actual property sit empty whereas so many in our metropolis (and the extensive world past) are with out properties.
Tanya Goodman, Los Angeles
