Recent Streetsblog LA posts about gentrification

Aaron Flournoy, bike repairman with several decades of service to the community under his belt, stands with his bike on the USC campus. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

USC Poised to Displace Black-Owned Bike Repair Business…For the Second Time

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 1, 2017 | 4 Comments

The relationships Flournoy has with the people he has long served are the kinds of relationships that make communities feel like communities. And those relationships are some of the first casualties as folks begin to lose their footholds in the neighborhoods they have built their lives around.

A visitor alights from an autonomous micro shuttle in front of the Vision Theater. Screenshot from video produced by Karl Baumann and Ben Caldwell.

Leimert Park Envisions Infusing Culture into Autonomous Micro Shuttles

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 4, 2017 | 10 Comments

Autonomous vehicles and other emerging technologies are just one more landscape into which community stories can and should be woven. And rather than wait to have to adapt their complex realities to technology that was not made for them or with their needs in mind, artist Ben Caldwell tells me, there is a unique opportunity for communities of color to leave a significant mark.

Segment A of the Rail-to-River bike and pedestrian path will run along the Slauson corridor (in green), between the Crenshaw and Blue Lines. Source: Metro

Metro Seeks Input on Design Options for Segment A of Rail-to-River Bike/Pedestrian Path

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jan 31, 2017 | 2 Comments

Last Thursday, Metro and Cityworks Design held two meetings to lay out the design options for Segment A of the Rail-to-River project for the community and to solicit feedback.

The massive billion-plus-dollar luxury housing and hotel project The Reef has planned for the corner of Washington and Broadway has the potential to anchor a major transformation of Historic South Central Los Angeles. Source: The Reef

What Constitutes Good Development? Luxury REEF Project Approved over South Central Residents’ Fears of Displacement

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 22, 2016 | No Comments

“To be honest, sometimes, we feel abandoned…” William Flores, a community engagement coordinator at CD Tech, told the PLUM committee on November 1. “This is an intimidating type of a position [for residents of South Central] to be in.”

Bike Talk: What Bike Advocacy Needs to Understand about South Central

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jul 18, 2016 | 24 Comments

“What is the situation in South L.A.?” is the question Colin Bogart, Education Director at the L.A. County Bicycle Coalition, posed to launch our discussion of the removal of a 7.2 mile bike lane planned for Central Avenue from the Mobility Plan 2035. Both Malcolm Harris, Director of Programs and Organizing from TRUST South L.A., and […]

Ninth District Councilmember Curren Price (standing center left, brownish jacket) turned the packed-to-the-hilt town hall over to union representatives and representatives of the "creative habitat" known as the Reef after his opening remarks. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Jobs or Housing? Historic South Central Residents Decry Feeling Asked to Choose by Billion Dollar Reef Project

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jun 14, 2016 | 24 Comments

THE NUMBER ONE THING that representatives from the “creative habitat” known as the Reef felt they had learned from engaging the community, the speaker told the more than 600 town hall attendees this past May 5, was that Historic South Central was “lacking a sense of place.” To give the community that sense of place […]

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