Recent Streetsblog LA posts about gentrification

Scoping Meeting to Explore Impacts of Update to Boyle Heights Community Plan to be Held Tuesday

By Sahra Sulaiman | | No Comments
Tuesday night, from 6 – 8:30 p.m., the Department of City Planning will be holding a Scoping Meeting to gather feedback from the community regarding the potential impacts the policies and goals contained within Boyle Heights Community Plan might have on the area’s environment, as required by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The meeting […]
Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Exploring the Legacy of Redlining via a New Documentary about Boyle Heights

By Sahra Sulaiman | | No Comments
Moreno’s perspective is one I’ve written about many times while tracking changes in this lower-income and largely Mexican-American community over the last few years, most recently with regard to developments Metro had planned for a complete overhaul of Mariachi Plaza. And it’s a perspective readers from outside the community often find controversial, associating it with […]

Can High-Density Housing Solve Our Regional Housing Crisis? The Answer: It’s Complicated

By Jason Islas | | 12 Comments
Southern California Public Radio affiliate KPCC, in partnership with the Milken Institute, assembled a panel of experts Wednesday night to answer the question: can high-density housing solve the housing crisis currently facing L.A. County and California? For those who have been following news about the crippling housing supply crisis in our region, it may not […]

The Ultimate First Street Guide to CicLAvia: Where to Eat and Who to Meet

By Sahra Sulaiman | | 7 Comments
CicLAvia! Bicycles! Hipster Invaders! Gentrification! Made you look! Probably provoked some strong emotions, too, given the way recent headlines (see here, here, here) in asking whether activities assumed to be the purview of “hipsters” could be compatible with lower-income communities, have inadvertently re-ified the “us vs. them” framing that guides too much of the conversation […]
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