ECHO PARK — Lupe Breard had spent the previous weeks packing up her belongings, waiting to be evicted from her historic Echo Park home – the home where, six decades ago, she lived alongside the Arechigas, the last family displaced in the racist “blight” clearance...
By Nick Gerda for LAist L.A. city officials have for months kept from the public a damning report, ordered by the council, that found a major homelessness enforcement policy championed by several council members has failed in key goals to keep areas clear of...
Indigenous Elder Roberto Mendoza on the early days of the American Indian Movement, the confluence between indigenous and communal values, his current involvement with the People’s Movement Assembly, and much...
by Jaclyn Cosgrove Los Angeles Times The requirements to live on the San Fernando Valley lots were clear in 1915. Any building, including the roof, must have two coats of paint. The fences “shall be” stained, painted or whitewashed. Wedged just after a prohibition on...
by Jack Ross Los Angeles Public Press DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — On a recent afternoon, Luz Molina and her daughter traveled to the Seventh Street Los Angeles Housing Department office looking for help with her landlord. Instead of finding city employees to help her, she...
