Topic Gentrification
Rent control is good and we need more of it.
“I think it’s terrible. When you [Lisa] already have such an extraordinary level of wealth, and you’re evicting little kids. It’s just terrible.” — Lena Bernstein, lifelong Pacific Palisades resident.
An from a group of students from the UCLA Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) program.
The gentrification conversation is privileging the wrong voices.
It’s been six months since tenants in seven buildings along Exposition Blvd near USC were hit with eviction notices.
In rapidly changing Westlake, hundreds of tenants — almost exclusively Latinx — are fighting back.
A tenant is about to lose her home of 18 years because her son, who grew up there, grew up.
Much has been made of the recent drop in rents in Seattle — not least by those who champion deregulation of development as the key to…
