Calif. gov intervenes for disabled tenants

MONROVIA, Calif., Sept. 19 (UPI) -- About 20 disabled residents of a California apartment complex will be spared eviction, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Friday.

Schwarzenegger, speaking in the courtyard of Regency Court Apartments in Monrovia, said he intervened because he remembered his mother-in-law, the late Eunice Shriver, and her work with the disabled, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The tenants were told they would have to leave the Regency Courts Apartments in Monrovia because the complex was only for those 62 and older. Schwarzenegger learned of the evictions from a news story in Thursday's Times featuring people like Lily Hixon, who has Down's syndrome.

"My mother-in-law fought so that people like Lily Hixon could live independently," Schwarzenegger said in a Twitter post Thursday night.

In a later post, the governor said he had talked to Star Holdings, a Rockford, Ill., real estate company that owns the Regency complex.