{"id":8265,"date":"2012-02-03T15:06:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T23:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.57.196.122\/~gdatwofo\/theavtimes\/?p=8265"},"modified":"2012-07-03T11:13:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T18:13:53","slug":"lancaster-mayor-extremely-disappointed-in-palmdales-settlement-of-section-8-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2012\/02\/03\/lancaster-mayor-extremely-disappointed-in-palmdales-settlement-of-section-8-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancaster Mayor \u2018extremely disappointed\u2019 in Palmdale\u2019s settlement of Section 8 lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"R.<\/a>LANCASTER – City of Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris\u00a0reacted strongly to the City of\u00a0Palmdale\u2019s decision to enter into a settlement agreement<\/a> in the Section 8 discrimination lawsuit involving both cities. Parris issued the following statement Friday:<\/p>\n

“I am extremely disappointed with the actions and comments made by the City of Palmdale regarding their recent settlement agreement in the Section 8 enforcement case. Their decision to acquiesce gives\u00a0comfort to criminals perpetrating housing fraud in the Antelope Valley.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Palmdale\u00a0has thrown\u00a0under the bus the Deputy Sheriffs and Section 8 investigators who have successfully fought fraud throughout the Antelope Valley.<\/p>\n

The unintended\u00a0consequence\u00a0of the City\u2019s actions and\u00a0statements is that they have\u00a0become a mouthpiece for the plaintiffs,\u00a0falsely\u00a0giving credence to offensive claims that\u00a0the Sheriff\u2019s Department and\u00a0citizens of Palmdale and\u00a0Lancaster\u00a0are racist. In fact,\u00a0recent reports show that the City of Lancaster is the most integrated city in Los Angeles County.<\/p>\n

Like\u00a0the City of Palmdale,\u00a0we\u00a0recognized that the County Housing Authority had insufficient resources assigned to investigate fraud and other violations of federal regulations, and anyone who expects three investigators to\u00a0enforce the requirements of 22,000 Section 8\u00a0vouchers countywide\u00a0is sadly mistaken.<\/p>\n

Together,\u00a0our cities\u00a0took steps to remedy this\u00a0situation by agreeing to pay the costs of added investigators assigned to our community, which were successful in over 91% of their cases.<\/p>\n

However,\u00a0Palmdale\u2019s agreement to settle this case now simply allows criminals committing housing fraud to act with impunity in the Antelope Valley.<\/p>\n

While\u00a0Mayor Ledford and I\u00a0have our differences,\u00a0for the better good of both communities,\u00a0we need to get beyond this.\u00a0 He has a responsibility as the leader of his city to properly represent all of his city\u2019s\u00a0law-abiding\u00a0constituents.<\/p>\n

Our commitment to fighting criminal housing fraud remains strong and we ask the City of Palmdale to continue this fight against criminal activity with us.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LANCASTER – City of Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris\u00a0reacted strongly to the City of\u00a0Palmdale\u2019s decision to enter into a settlement agreement in the Section 8 discrimination lawsuit involving both cities. Parris issued the following statement Friday: “I am extremely disappointed with the actions and comments made by the City of Palmdale regarding their recent settlement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}