Press & News
6/11/24
The Code Enforcement Officer Safety Foundation thanked California Receivership Group (CRG) and its other sponsors, which helped "obtain new body armor for those in need and provide training scholarships."
6/3/24
Historic Capistrano Seaside Inn on Pacific Coast Highway to reopen under Artist Guild Hotels as El Caminante Bar and Bungalow.
3/28/2024
Marred by years of code violation issues, the troubled property at 46 Prado Road will be rejuvenated as a space that helps the homeless community after issues were abated by California Receivership Group.
12/24/2023
Via a request from Del Norte Code Enforcement, the Building Department the Crescent Fire Protection District (CFPD), and County Counsel, the Superior Court assigned California Receivership Group full responsibilities in control of a long-standing nuisance property in Crescent City.
A Bakersfield house at 2205 20th St. suffered serious damage during its more recent life as a vacant building, including fire, vandalism, theft and neglect. What a difference the past few months have made
All 29 buildings operated by the nonprofit Skid Row Housing Trust have been placed into receivership after many of them fell into extreme disrepair and reports of drug use became widespread.
3/31/2023
The City of Los Angeles is taking action to save 2,000 housing units in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles from being dissolved.
3/31/2023
In a desperate move to reverse deteriorating conditions for more than 1,500 low-income tenants, the Los Angeles city attorney asked a judge Thursday to appoint a receiver for distressed residential buildings operated by the failing nonprofit Skid Row Housing Trust.
3/30/2023
Skid Row housing trust, a nonprofit that owns and operates 29 buildings, 2,000 units of subsidized housing on Skid Row, is in such dire financial trouble that the city of Los Angeles is stepping in.
2/3/2023
A building destroyed by a fire is reconstructed with the city’s help through appointment of CRG.
After receivership, residents living along the cliffs above Capistrano Beach say they are looking forward to the unveiling of a newly renovated Capistrano Seaside Inn, which after sitting in disrepair, bogged down by legal disputes for years, might open as early as the spring.
A Fresno mobile home park which saw some of the city’s worst living conditions after years of neglect is now under new ownership. But residents still have questions about their future at the park.
9/15/2022
Receiver Mark Adams explains how receivership could help beleaguered Granada Hills property to CBS Los Angeles
Founder of California Receivership Group, Mark Adams was recently interviewed by CBS News about how a health and safety receivership could solve the stalemate at this dangerous #nuisance property. Since then we've been inundated with calls from neighbors about similar properties. The #receivership remedy under § 17980.7(c) of the California Health and Safety Code exists to help with extreme cases like this one where traditional code enforcement strategies have been unsuccessful.
Receiver Mark Adams and California Receivership Group take next steps towards long standing receivership battle for a historic dilapidated hotel
10/28/20
The City of Dana Point announced on Wednesday, Oct. 28 that construction has begun to abate the nuisance conditions at Capistrano Seaside Inn.
10/14/20
In a case C.R.G. was involved in, the First District Court of Appeal released a published ruling that nuisance abatement, including that of burned structures, is not to be held hostage to a receivership property’s debt load. The Opinion affirms that superior courts have discretion to subordinate existing liens on receivership property when doing so is necessary to remedy the nuisance conditions. Further, trial courts can “strip” liens off receivership properties in a sale meant to enable their ultimate abatement.
8/6/20
When a nuisance property has languished for a long period of time, enforcement agencies–including a municipality, county, or fire protection district–may be at a loss for how to proceed. Learning about the health and safety receivership remedy can bring about a lot of good questions, which I’ll answer in this article.
2/6/20
The Jan. 31 status conference for the City of Dana Point’s legal battle with Capistrano Seaside Inn was continued by the court on its own motion to March 13. In the meantime, the court-appointed receiver for the aging property has filed a report with the court for its consideration explaining its independent investigation into Seaside’s desire to demolish the hotel and build a new project at the site.
12/12/19
A dilapidated hotel in Oakland is undergoing major construction and will soon reopen as affordable housing, free of code violations and deplorable conditions.
10/29/19
The Los Angeles Business Journal recognizes California Receivership Group as an influential family-owned business in 2019 for the second year running
10/9/19
A liquor store and church is plagued by the deadly illegal activity in its parking lot. A health and safety receivership turned it around.
10/4/2019
Receiver Mark Adams was the first person ever appointed as receiver under the California Health and Safety Code. Adams discusses that first case in this article on Medium.
8/1/19
California Receivership Group celebrated its twentieth-anniversary on August 2nd, 2019. On that date in 1999, a judge signed an order appointing Receiver Mark Adams to address code violations at a 66-unit apartment complex in Los Angeles. Although receivership was an available remedy, listed in the State of California's Health and Safety Code to address substandard properties, this marked the first time it was used to tackle a nuisance abatement issue.
