Slumlord Gives $100,000 to 5 Skid Row Agencies

Five organizations that cater to the poor and homeless on Skid Row received $100,000 in donations this week from an unlikely source--a convicted slumlord.

Aaron G. Kempe, 66, of Beverly Hills was ordered to make the contributions after Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Carol Boas-Goodson found that Kempe had not made court-ordered repairs at a 93-room residential hotel he owns. The donation is the largest to come out of a program instituted five years ago by City Atty. James Hahn.

Boas-Goodson ordered that the $100,000 be distributed evenly among the Downtown Women’s Center, Los Angeles Mission, Fred Jordan Mission, Para Los Ninos and Midnight Mission. Kempe began serving a four-month jail term March 1 after losing an appeal of a 1989 probation violation stemming from his failure to make repairs at the Stratford Hotel at 2629 W. 8th St.