Chavez Ravine

The journal article Revisiting the Chavez Ravine explains the history of Chavez Ravine and the struggles of those who lived there. Chavez Ravine is the neighborhood where Dodger stadium is located; previously this land was home to many unfortunate legal and illegal Mexican citizens. Throughout the 30’s the area served as a project or public housing for a large Mexican percentage. Under the Traft-EUender Wagner Act, many projects in the local Los Angles are were replaced. Those who live there were told to leave if they did not they were physically forced out.

Those who cannot afford the high prices of housing are often forced out into the streets where they face a very uncertain future due to the number of abuses they encounter daily from all walks of life, with the most damning being the vagrancy laws that come into vogue in areas that are getting gentrified, which many cities have passed to “protect” their newfound assets and tax base from the “lowering” of property values. Furthermore, when cities such as Los Angeles demand that property developers set aside affordable housing for lower income people, they get sued in court, such as in 2009, when real estate developer Geoffrey Palmer successfully sued in order to overturned an ordnance which required that. This was also the same man who also proposed building a footbridge connecting two of his buildings to minimize contact with people he deemed undesirable (Davis).

In “The Complexities and Processes of Racial Housing discrimination” by Vincent J. Roscigno, Diana L. Karafin, and Griff tester, the main concept of racial disparity and inequality among neighborhoods is discussed, and how those inequalities became to be. They first highlight the wide range of potentially exclusionary practices, through qualitative and quantitative data comprised of over 750 verified housing discrimination cases (Roscigno, p. 162). Citing the U.S. Census, it is found that Blacks, compared to Hispanics and Asians, continue to experience high levels of residential segregation. This is done through discriminatory practices, whether they be by exclusionary or non-exclusionary methods. Even after the passing of the Fair Housing Act in 1988, discrimination against Blacks and Hispanics decreased somewhat, though African Americans still appeared to take part in racial steering, and Hispanics continued to have limitations in regards to opportunities and access to rental units (Roscigno, p. 163).

Housing programs and redevelopment continued to expand and finally the United States passed the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD for short, in 1965. The establishment of the eleventh Cabinet-level agency sparked controversy between Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate. The arguments “were based on the need for managerial improvement and greater efficiency and coordination of programs, but there was, also, general recognition that the prestige of Cabinet status would benefit housing and urban programs both in Congress and outside government” (Willmann 22).

2003). Abraham Levitt, a prominent builder, understood the importance of providing housing to people of every income range and he responded to the situation by constructing rows of identical four room apartments at Long Island, New York, that were offered to veteran war soldiers for only $60 a month (Jackson. 1985; Clapson. 2003). Levittown, the mass housing facility designed and constructed by Levitts, was vehemently criticized by architects for producing homogenous and suffocating environment and being antithetical to lofted architectural principles (Jackson. 1985). But the critics ignored the fact that, Levitt could not incorporate the lofty and stylist architectural designs that were hallmark of most of Victorian style villas and bungalows and yet produce houses on mass scale, in quick time and provide them for sale at most affordable prices. His aim was to construct the best houses at least cost to provide most economical housing. The fact was that Levitt had successfully fulfilled the demands and dreams of many Americans of owning their own house.

With the introduction of these buildings, the Cabrini projects became dominated by African Americans. Three years later in 1962, the William Green public housing project was built adjacent to the Cabrini development. It was comprised of eight fifteen- and sixteen- story gallery-style buildings, much like the Robert Taylor Homes that can be seen from the Dan Ryan Expressway. (Krieger, The Projects)

“The Red Scare of the 1950s, the years of Senator MCcarthy the city began condemning homes” (Normark 17.) When many social and interracial labor movements of the Left were dismantled. This was not an isolated case this was happening all over the country right before our own eyes. A 1950 far-sighted housing development of 3364 housing units proposed on a 278-acre site in the underprivileged downtown Chavez Ravine neighborhood. Elysian Park Heights, the project was intended to be the groundwork for citywide slum revitalization development. Regardless of how self-sufficient the residents of Chavez Ravine one of the more prominent Mexican American thriving communities served as a home to three Mexican Communities La Loma, Palo Verde and Bishop. Job and housing discrimination was one of the reasons the neighborhoods rallied around each other making them a thriving community. Despite of having no help from the city they had a school, church and vegetation. (Evanosky 80) Mexican families being discriminated everywhere else in the city they found refuge and decided to make Chavez Ravine their home. (Dennis Evanosky, Eric J. Kos, 80) Getting no response from the city, in spite of years asking for help to upgrade their community. The government condemn the habitat as a blighted area this changed their lives as they knew it. (80)

This report will focus on infrastructure, health, and justice, behind several border counties in Texas with the highest focus of colonias like El Paso, Hidalgo, Starr, Maverick, and Cameron County. Colonias lack what we call the basics of living, such as paved roads, utilities, and secure infrastructure. Colonias tend to be located outside of city limits, which cuts them off from municipal services and government provided infrastructure. They vary in size, infrastructure, and many only consist of a few houses. Colonias in Texas have been around for the past 65 years and began by migrant farm workers (4). Living in a colonia you don’t have running water and adequate shelter, but conditions mask a thriving communities where residents provide and support one another. There may be a big poverty rate among colonias, but homelessness is rarely seen in these small communities. If one was to go to a colonia we would meet people not afraid to work, some even working more than one job. We would meet a culture with integrity and care for the ones around them. You

AEG funded more housing units than they were required to, they worked closely with community coalition partners in order to set up a successful and effective local hiring program, and they donated to help fund a new land trust. Although some say the wording of the CBA may create problems, AEG has technically met the goals outlined in the L.A. Live CBA. Part of their adherence to the CBA may have been partially motivated by AEG’s need for ongoing coalition support, but nonetheless they honored their agreement. Another complaint may be that the need for monitoring and coordinating job and housing programs add extra stress to community organizations. There are studies of the execution of CBAs that recommend developers

Poverty in San Fernando Poverty has affected the US in the past by various things, such as child poverty, crime and poverty, and etc. Statistics say that 1 in 5 Black Americans live in poverty and 1 in 4 Hispanics live in poverty. The city of San Fernando is one of the many cities of Los Angeles that suffers from poverty. San Fernando which is a city in the San Fernando valley, is diverse in race but mostly it’s hispanics that live there. Sadly many hispanics illegally cross the border to seek a better life but fail to do so.

Chinatown, Olvera Street, and Compton all contributed to culturally diversity and the expansion of Los Angeles. Although Los Angeles has become rich in cultures, its evolution did not go without racial tensions and segregation. With the arrival of blacks from the south, white-Los Angeles did always recognize the minority community. Angelenos did not always embrace diversity with pride, but perhaps the sad part is not the fact that racial segregation took place, but the fact that it was not created by just the individual, but also by the organization. Federal programs like the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and the Homeowner’s Loan Corporation (HOLC) divided up Los Angeles into a complex socio-economic racial-class system. The influences of the local level influenced the federal level and revolutionized the finance industry. (Avila, lecture 2/5/02) These federal organizations blatantly labeled minorities as derogatory, uneducated, second-class citizens that brought down property value in “white” neighborhoods. Latinos and Black were often labeled as a “minority problem” and even as a “disease” on official HOLC documents. The HOLC implemented strict government guidelines and kept maps of white neighborhoods confidential. It also devised a formal and uniform style of appraising homes by breaking neighborhoods into race classifications by letter. As Waldie states, “The Montana Land Company made it clear that lots were

In September 2003, Mason Sexton, a young, inexperienced developer, was making plans to replace a rooming house he had inherited next to the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville with a new 14-unit, 5-story apartment house. In his attempts to assemble the information, approvals, and resources necessary to go ahead, he runs into many problems associated with the development process. While Sexton is able to carry out most of the conceptual, investigative and planning stages of this development, he runs into many problems because of his inexperience and his initial plan changes over time. He runs into issues obtain financing, has to spend money to obtain a certificate of occupancy, underestimates the

As I was traveling down Superior Avenue in Newport Beach on a beautiful sunny day the view and size of the Pacific Ocean in front of me took my breath away. After such a mesmerizing view of the abundance of the beautiful blue ocean in front of me, I had to challenge myself to dig deeply into the real resources, supply and distribution of California’s water. Where does our tap water, our drinking water, our gardening water, and lake water come from? Do we use ocean water, river water, or ground water, and if it is a river what river does the water come from? As I continued my journey home to Rancho Santa Margarita I happened to pass the Santa Margarita Water District building located off Antonio Parkway in Rancho Santa Margarita at that moment

Crissy Field is a 40.5 ha central of Presidio park, located in the seashore of San Francisco, further to the east of the Golden Bridge. There had an astonishing environment of salt swamp occurred for thousand years. Regarding to restoration matter, Crissy Field was a dishonored and abandoned concrete underused land, less than 10% of the original shoreline retained. The design’s challenge was transform an old military area to a lively open public space in which the task was that it was not only about restructuring the non-existent natural circumstance of tidal swampland, sand dunes as a home for native

Let’s look at another example, the Pruitt Igoe urban housing development in St. Louis, Missouri, completed in 1955. This development was planned according to the modernist principles of Le Corbusier and comprised thirty-three eleven-storey high-rise blocks made up of individual apartments. These were communal