PT. III: Gente Sí, Gentrify No: Resisting Displacement in Boyle Heights
Activists, residents, and community members will come together to discuss the struggle against gentrification and displacement in Boyle Heights.
Activists, residents, and community members will come together to discuss the struggle against gentrification and displacement in Boyle Heights.
Author Robert McDonald will discuss his new book. Reception, panel discussion, author Q&A, and book signing to follow.
We will explore the issue of homelessness, and the response of local institutions, from three different perspectives: a Skid Row resident and activist, a developer of permanent supportive housing, and UCLA’s own BruinShelter. Lunch will be provided.
Lecture featuring Ute Lehrer on "The Quest for Public Space in the Millennial Metropolis of Toronto's Condoland."
Discussions of rent control, stabilization and evictions, including exploration of California housing laws that affect renters and what can be done to give renters a more stable foundation.
'Black, Brown, and Powerful: Freedom Dreams in Unequal Cities' will shine a light on organizing frameworks and resistance strategies that challenge exclusion and refuse subordination.
Discussion of findings from study by the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge. Our panelists will examine what progress has been made in South LA, if any, in the domain of housing since the 1960s.
The 2018 UCLA DTLA Forum will discuss the rising housing costs and the politics of supply that make building more housing extremely complicated.
Robert Poole will discuss his new book in which he argues that the 20th century governance and funding model for highways is failing to solve chronic problems such as congestion, deferred maintenance, and poor resource allocations.
Presentation of the recently released UCLA Lewis Center's report "Transit Oriented Los Angeles" and a discussion of Los Angeles’ Transit Oriented Communities (TOC) Affordable Housing Incentive Program.