Connect PROMOTE YOUR BUSINESS HERE! Log on Yes, in this very spot! EVERYDAY Stay local Call 310-458-7737 for details Visit us online at smdp.com TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2009 Volume 8 Issue 95 Santa Monica Daily Press SCHMIDT FEELING GOOD SEE PAGE 10 Since 2001: A news odyssey THE HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME ISSUE Section 8 tenants fight to buy Venice apartments BY MELODY HANATANI Daily Press Staff Writer VENICE Kendra Moore is quick to name the reasons which she believes make her home for the past 24 years nearly impossible to leave, speaking proudly of the area’s racial and economic diversity and smiling when reflecting on raising four children there. But there’s a sense of underlying frustra- tion and exhaustion when Moore talks of a decades long struggle by the tenants of the Holiday Venice apartments to purchase the Section 8 housing development in the his- Brandon Wise
[email protected] torically working-class Latino and black FOR THE LONG HAUL: The City Council is expected tonight to extend the contract of RNC Genter Capital Management, which manages the Oakwood neighborhood, hoping to retain Woodlawn Cemetery's perpetual care funds. The contract is estimated to cost about $42,600, or 0.6 percent of the $7.1 million portfolio. affordability forever by doing so. A portion of the sale of all burial plots, crypts or niche is reserved for perpetual care services. The residents argue that purchasing the development will be necessary to ensure the apartments remain accessible to the area’s low-income and poor families because of the Homeless network close to launching current property owner’s plans to begin pre- paying his mortgages to the U.S.