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City Rising
Rise of the Renter Nation
Post date:The rise of the renter nation is not an isolated phenomenon; it results from a perfect storm of surging housing demand, a severe shortage of affordable rental units, declining or stagnant wages, and housing policy that favors higher income groups.
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City Rising
City Rising
Understanding Rising Inequality and Displacement in Oakland
Post date:Throughout its history, the City of Oakland has been drawn and redrawn at the hand of inequality, with each evolution marked by major demographic and spatial transformations.
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City Rising
City Rising
A History of Housing Practices in Long Beach
Post date:Dubbed "Iowa by the Sea," an influx of white Midwesterners migrated to Long Beach, part of the two million people that moved to Los Angeles County between 1920 and 1930. These out-of-towners largely shaped the city.
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City Rising
City Rising
Gentrification Is About Power: What’s Community Got to Do with It?
Post date:Despite the promises of revitalization and free market exchange for neighborhoods, gentrification is an invading force that has developed out of a history of discriminatory laws and practices in the United States.
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redevelopment
Trust Docs
Urban Displacement: Why This Man Was Removed From His Home Throughout His Life
Post date:Evicted three times over three decades from three parts of Rio, his life illustrates how the re-development and gentrification have pushed many of Rio's poorest residents to the edges, a pattern seen globally.
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Cultural Politics
Artbound
One of the City's Oldest Artist Communities Fights to Stay in Arts District
Post date:The Arts District has become a neighborhood of high-fashion boutiques and third-wave coffee shops. Now, the artists of the Santa Fe Art Colony are fighting to keep their live-work spaces as their 30-year rent-restriction agreement ends.
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literature
Artbound
Santa Ana Writer Explores Gentrification Through Modern-day Fairy Tales
Post date:Writer Sarah Rafael García is a modern-day Brother Grimm, transforming Santa Ana, California's stories into fairy tale format.
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City Rising
City Rising
Learn More About City Rising
Post date:A housing rights movement is on the rise, not just in California, but across the nation, as the right to property, home, community and the city take center stage in a local and global debate.
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gentrification
No Place Like Home: A Timeline of U.S. Coercion of Land and Property
Post date:Although the right to land and property is at the core of American values, few in the U.S. have access to land ownership or quality housing. This timeline from 1600s to present traces displacement, urban renewal, and housing discrimination.
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gentrification
City Rising
Lives Were Lost, the Ghost Ship Fire Shouldn’t Be About Politics
Post date:This tragic story about artists who’ve perished brought to light complicated politics in Oakland. But at its heart, it’s a story about people.
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Cultural Politics
Artbound
Art and Complicity: How the Fight Against Gentrification in Boyle Heights Questions the Role of Artists
Post date:In Boyle Heights, the conflict between art spaces and local grassroots organizations has escalated. Residents are bringing into question the direct and indirect complicity of artists and cultural spaces in the displacement of communities.
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gentrification
Laura Flanders Show
Sarah Schulman, Lupe Fiasco and Paying for Church
Post date:Sarah Sarah Schulman discusses gentrification and Lupe Fiasco talks about his business incubation program.
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Cultural Politics
Artbound
After Sushi: Finding an Heir to San Diego's Cultural Space
Post date:San Diego city officials approved a developer's request to end a loan agreement that required a prime commercial space in the East Village be rented to an arts organization.
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Cultural Politics
Artbound
Inside the World of Chinatown's Galleries
Post date:Like many other neighborhoods near the center of Los Angeles, Chinatown is in flux. One concern that has long surfaced about the neighborhood's art scene is gentrification.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
POSTscript: End of an Era for A Downtown Space
Post date:Experimental exhibition space PØST is shuttering amid a changing downtown Los Angeles. Founded by HK Zamani, the artist ruminates about the venue's past, present and possible future.
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Cultural Politics
Artbound
On the Boardwalk: Jeanne van Heeswijk's Public Faculty 8
Post date:Jeanne van Heeswijk's work engages places where market-driven "regeneration" is displacing resident populations, focusing on the gentrification of Hollywood.
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Performance
Artbound
Love on San Pedro: A Cardboard Ecology
Post date:The symbolic and physical properties of cardboard play a significant role in the set design of "Love on San Pedro."
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Performance
Artbound
Love on San Pedro: Playwright James McManus on Hunger
Post date:The playwright behind "Love on San Pedro" explains the inspiration and process behind penning the community collaborative play.
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Architecture and Design
Artbound
The Aesthetics of Ikea-fying Los Angeles
Post date:Neighborhood change is incremental until it isn't. In a city as diffuse as Los Angeles, it can be hard to spot, unless you know the signposts to look for.
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Cultural Politics
Artbound
Promise, Pitfalls and the Boyle Heights Arts District
Post date:The arts district and other revitalization holds much promise but does have hazards. Knowing the potential ill effects should continue to guide the process for a promising arts district.