Los Angeles Tenants to Confront Landlord Professor About Illegal Evictions

The tenants’ landlord is UCLA Professor Eric Sussman,who teaches a Real Estate Investment class to UCLA Anderson School students on Tuesday evenings. Tenants want to strip Professor Sussman of his multiple “Teacher of the Year” awards and force him to employ ethical business practices in the properties he owns. In response, tenants plan to present Sussman with an award of their own. They will attempt to give him a Piggie Bank to symbolize the “Greediest Landlord of the Year Award.”

Tenants are concerned that a professor at a taxpayer-funded institution may be setting an example to his students that the way to manage real estate holdings and maximize profits is through illegal business practices.

Tenants are requesting that the University conduct a complete review of the business practices of Eric Sussman. The tenants see that the campus has the responsibility to determine if Sussman's practices fully reflect the standards that the campus has established and promotes among faculty, staff and students. Tenants believe that UCLA would jeopardizes its position as a moral leader should it decide to turn a blind eye to Sussman's activities in the community.

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