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Eighth Machine Gun Cavalry in action on the Mexican border. | Library of Congress
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Santa Ana Civic Center Sept 7 1967 Orange County Archives
Three generations of my family saw Santa Ana’s gentrification unravel its many forms before our eyes. Through the decades, my grandmother, my mother and I have been able to observe the changes in our own way.
For rent sign for an unfurnished house reads: "Absolutely no Spanish or Mexicans. No children. No pets. One or two adults only. Phone Atlantic 2-9052." | Los Angeles Public Library
Fifty years ago, the United States Supreme Court upheld the California Supreme Court decision to overturn the controversial Prop 14 referendum.
anti-eviction map
The Ellis Act is a California state law passed in 1985 that allows landlords of rent-controlled buildings to exit the rental market by evicting tenants for no fault of their own.
A foreclosure sign in Salton City, CA. 2008. | Jeroen Elfferich/Flickr/Creative Commons
Nearly a decade later, public policy professionals and academics have worked to unravel the complex factors that led to the 2008 housing crisis and why minorities and women proved particularly vulnerable.
710 freeway
Located 20 minutes from downtown, the southeast suffers from life-threatening pollution across the cities of Bell, Bell Gardens, Cudahy, Huntington Park, Lynwood, Maywood and Vernon.
This statue of Junipero Serra towers over Interstate 280 near the Crystal Springs Reservoir south of San Francisco.
The debate over removal of Confederate statues and memorials has some Californians questioning their own history.
Grounded.
Up until recently, the tight-knit Oak Park community carried the stigma of being a neighborhood with a high poverty rate, gang violence and neglect. For a long time, that was mostly true.
South Los Angeles Normandie Avenue Aerial
Rising property values, no rent controls, Metro's expansion and the arrival of the Rams all contribute to the area's complex gentrification issues.
Big Cities: Chi Fu Valley in Hong Kong
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A government plan to rebuild a large public housing estate has raised the flags because the redevelopment site would include an old dairy farm built among a verdant valley in 1886.
Big Cities: La Memoria Del Sonido
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"La Memoria Del Sonido" builds an arc of experiences and connections between noise and the sounds in San Jose, Costa Rica.
Q’eswachaka Bridge in Peru
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Community members have been preserving the cultural heritage of the Q’eswachaka bridge, the last living legacy of Inca architecture, by using ancestral techniques, creativity and solidarity.
Big Cities: Rice & Roses
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Rice and Roses in Malaysia is dedicated to feeding the rising number of homeless individuals who are being displaced by the rapid development in the city of George Town.
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