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Article: Internal error: tax sale of public housing gets blocked.(housing)
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- California Planning & Development Report
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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A real estate company's purchase at a tax sale of townhouses owned by the Los Angeles County Housing Authority is not valid, the Second District Court of Appeal has ruled.
How could real estate owned by a public agency get sold for nonpayment of taxes? Erroneously.
During the 1980s, E.A. Reeves Partnership contracted with the state to build a low-income townhouse project on lots 14, 15 and 16 of the Springdale Tract, along Willowbrook Avenue, in South Central Los Angeles. After the housing was built, Reeves conveyed the property to the state. However, a scrivener's error in the grant deed omitted reference to parcels 15 and 16. When the state sold the ...