Seniors fight ouster from Westwood retirement home

Ruth Frank, 94, and other tenants who do not want to be forced to move out argue that if building upgrades are really necessary for safety reasons the job should be done in phases.

Emiel Meisel, 92, at his computer, writes a blog about geriatric living in Los Angeles. An eviction notice last fall, for him and about a hundred other seniors living in the Vintage Westwood Horizons retirement home, upped his game.

Ruth Frank, 94, has lived at the retirement home for seven years. Tenants have found an ally in Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Koretz, who called the planned displacement “outrageous” and said it might be “the largest senior citizen mass eviction in the country.”

A note taped on the TV belonging to Flossy Liebman, a resident of Vintage Westwood Horizons.  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Joel Polachek, 63, is in the process of helping his mother Lucille Polachek, 89, move out.

A defiant note in Flossy Liebman’s apartment.