Abandoned LA mansion creating problems for neighbors

Village House overlooking the San Fernando Valley is the latest problem property to grab the attention. Of the two candidates for mayor. Fox 11 Susan here soon. Joining us live in studio city more on that, Susan. Well, Christina Glenn. Yes, neighbors in this neighborhood told us that back in 2021 in order to build that house right up there, they needed a helicopter to drop the magnet for eye beams, but it was never completed. And now in 2026, it is a magnet for taggers, squatters and partiers. There's two chains and two locks to keep people off the narrow trail that leads to this house. But from the popular universal city overlook, there's an easy access through the chain link fence. It's right under the universal overlook, so it's It's just people come at night and they. Use it to party. There's graffiti all over it. Beer cans and everything. Ted took it upon himself to lock the gate on Mulholland Drive on July 4th, which is totally illegal. You can't lock up someone else's house. But you know, I figured I was protecting their property anyway. So you know from fires and 50 people up there down the hill from Ted's Chris also worries about the potential for wildfires. wildfire. We're in the hills. There's a lot of dry vegetation and I'm always worried that a spark anything a cigarette thrown just a campfire would blow up the whole neighborhood. Yeah. Fire at a nearby abandoned property in Studio City brought out the media and both Mayor Karen Bass and the city council representative Nithya Rahman after the mayor visited the property on Babcock, the city moved forward to trim the trees and put a permanent fencing. For this property on Mulholland, the mayor's office issued an order that gave the property owner until Monday to remove all waste, rubbish, debris, flammable, combustible or hazardous materials from the interior of the structure. Also from the outside the property. The view from Sky Fox shows debris below the house as if the partiers or squatters broke out the windows and threw out whatever was easy to destroy. Ted claims he called the office of his city council council member Nithya Rahman, but I did report it to Nithya's office and. I never had a response. It was I called the city and month later and reported again, and that's when they locked it up and assigned it to somebody like a case worker. I forget. They gave me his name. Rahman's office gave us this statement. Our office has engaged with L. A DBS on this case. This property is a stark example of exactly the kind of bureaucratic failure. Our office has been sounding the alarm about. Well, the property was apparently sold about five years ago. We reached out to the registered owner but have not heard back yet. The mayor's statement and also Nithya Rahman statement is much longer than what we included on our story. So if you'd like to see the full statements, you can go to our website, Fox, l a .com reporting live in Studio City. I'm Susan here with soon up Fox