A construction project underway in the heart of Boyle Heights is designed to tackle that area’s affordable housing crisis.
You can’t talk about affordable housing in this community without talking about the impact of gentrification.
The battle to keep long term residents from being pushed out by rising rents has intensified in recent years. “Some landlords take advantage of renters not knowing their rents. so they’ll go and offer $5-15,000 and get booted out,” Gomez said. “We got to protect people from being evicted unnecessarily. I do a lot of ‘know your rights workshops.’”
Educating renters and providing living wage jobs with benefits are what those here say is needed to keep families in their homes. “This project has put a lot of our members to work. over 120 members that live here in the local community,” said George Bocanegra of the Southwest Regional Council of carpenters.This article tagged under:
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