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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.
“They’re working several jobs in order to make ends meet in addition to going to school. They come in hoping that financial aid will cover everything and they find out it will not.”
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.
From the late 1800s, Santa Ana has gone from being a historic urban center in wealthy white and conservative Orange County to a large center with a Mexican, working-class and immigrant identity.
With a seventy-eight percent Latino population, Santa Ana has become a sanctuary for Latinos in Orange County. Maintaining traditions from their homelands, generations of U.S. born and immigrant Latinos have cultivated Santa Ana’s distinct culture.
Fifty years ago, the United States Supreme Court upheld the California Supreme Court decision to overturn the controversial Prop 14 referendum.
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.
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.
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.
Oakland is changing, and many who have lived here for a while are nervous about that. They’re nervous that when wealthier people move in, their neighborhoods will change and they might not be so welcome anymore.
Since 1929, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles has provided countless poor and low-income people with legal help or a crisis that threatens their shelter, security or basic needs.
Since 2013, Leadership for Urban Renewal Network has created sustainable communities through promoting and building places that meet the diverse needs of residents.
