L&B REAL ESTATE v. Housing Authority

Opinion

RUBIN, Acting P. J.

L&B Real Estate appeals from the judgment entered in actions that voided L&B’s tax deed to a low-income housing project and quieted title in the true owner, the Housing Authority of the County of Los Angeles. Because that tax deed was void, we affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

In 1985, the E.A. Reeves Partnership (Reeves) owned lot 14 and portions of lots 15 and 16 of the Springdale Tract along Willowbrook Avenue in South Central Los Angeles. At that time, Reeves contracted with the State of California to build a low-income housing townhouse project on those parcels…