Our Tenants Struggle 2024-2025
Our tenant struggle has been a long and emotionally challenging journey, marked by stress, hardship, and the constant pressure to remain positive during division and adversity. We've had to carefully navigate our words and actions, all while facing difficult circumstances that have tested our resilience and unity.
Tenants organized to fight for their basic rights to be respected and the right to flush toilet paper down the toilet.
In February 2024 public housing tenants at Florence Janss apartment complex Thousand Oaks CA. Had to organize to fight for the right to flush toilet paper down the toilet. Please read the housing authority's community reminder letter that went out to all tenants in February 2024. We are now going public about our tenant struggles in public housing and all that we have endured since advocating for our basic rights to be respected and the right to flush toilet paper down the toilet.
Standing in Solidarity with Public Housing Tenants. No More Unfair Restrictions – Justice for Tenants!
We stand with Public Housing tenants in their struggle for justice to reclaim their fundamental rights, through unity and tenant empowerment. Every tenant deserves to live with dignity and without unfair restrictions on their rights. No one should have to fight for rights that should already be protected.
July 12, 2025 Tenant Justice Awareness Protest
Ventura County Tenants: Defending Seniors & Disabled Tenants
We call on local and county officials to immediately investigate and intervene in the ongoing retaliation against tenants at Florence Janss Apartments, a public housing complex in Thousand Oaks, California, operated by the Area Housing Authority of the County of Ventura (AHACV).
Residents — whom are disabled, elderly, and low-income — are facing harassment and eviction threats for exercising their basic rights: organizing a Resident Council (AKA: tenant association), requesting ADA accommodations, and speaking out about uninhabitable conditions.
2025 HUD funded emergency grant for sewer line repair
HUD has classified Florence Janss Apartments sewer line problem as emergency work because of the existing hazardous conditions that threaten the health and safety of residents of Florence Janss Apartments. So HUD has funded: $682,734 for sewer line repair.
Housing Authority in a document to HUD has admitted to severity of the problem.
FLORENCE JANSS - 190-210 Brazil St., Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 - Sewer Line Replacement: $682,734
The AHA is requesting emergency funding to address multiple sewer back-ups at the Florence Janss Apartments; a 64 unit complex that is the home of elderly and disabled individuals. In the last year, tenants have requested transfers or have moved due to the frustration and concern for their health resulting from recurring flooding in their units. Not only is the sewage a health hazard to our tenants due to bacteria in the water, but it can also create other hazards such as mold and bacteria growth and serious structural damage resulting from the constant water intrusion. Furthermore, relocation, carpet replacement, water restoration repairs and constant tenant complaints have been costly. In July of 2024, the AHA spent $96,000 to complete an urgent repair to a portion of the cast iron pipe that had major cracks and holes.