by Echo Park Community Coalition (EPCC)
Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009 at 2:22 PM
epcc_la@hotmail.com 818-749-0272 1740 W. Temple St. Los Angeles, Ca 90026
et city leaders, banks, and big developers know that we will not be forced out of our neighborhoods!
With massive tax breaks and generous loans granted by big banks and the city administration, big developers are pushing forward in their attempt to remove poor and working families from the vibrant and colorful neighborhoods around Los Angeles.
Signs of gentrification are everywhere. Rents are increased to drive families out of their homes, to be replaced with luxury apartments. Big national mega-stores are replacing local mom and papa businesses.
As residents are forced out, stable communities are torn apart. Immigrant working families, who have lived and worked here for generations, are being pushed out by a profit-driven campaign of racist gentrification
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WHAT IS GENTRIFICATION?
By Echo Park Community Coalition (EPCC)
GENTRIFICATION: IS IT URBAN RENEWAL OR URBAN REMOVAL
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Keywords: Social Issues, Economy,
NO TO GENTRIFICATION! YES TO PEOPLE"S RIGHTS!
EPCC NEWS
August 15, 2009
GENTRIFICATION: IS IT URBAN RENEWAL OR URBAN REMOVAL
Let city leaders, banks, and big developers know that we will not be forced out of our neighborhoods!
With massive tax breaks and generous loans granted by big banks and the city administration, big developers are pushing forward in their attempt to remove poor and working families from the vibrant and colorful neighborhoods around Los Angeles.
Signs of gentrification are everywhere. Rents are increased to drive families out of their homes, to be replaced with luxury apartments. Big national mega-stores are replacing local mom and papa businesses.
As residents are forced out, stable communities are torn apart. Immigrant working families, who have lived and worked here for generations, are being pushed out by a profit-driven campaign of racist gentrification.
As an example, several old housing apartments in Bonnie Brae street have been demolished to give way to new and high cost-housing for the rich and the yuppies. Old renters were forced out of state into low-cost states like Colorado and Nevada.
WHAT IS GENTRIFICATION?
Urban gentrification is affecting cities across the country. Rents go up, homes are bulldozed and replaced with luxury condos and lofts for the well-to-do. Trendy and expensive restaurants replace local restaurants featuring exceptional home-style cooking at affordable prices. Cohesive communities and neighborhoods are torn apart.
A PATTERN OF RACISM.
From Washington, DC, to Los Angeles, Black and Latino communities have been the hardest hit by gentrification as communities are pushed out to make way for wealthy professionals who are drawn to the glamour of the newly established trendy stores, bars and cafes. Meanwhile, local residents and businesses are forced out by skyrocketing rents as old buildings and houses are torn down to make way for high rent luxury condos.
CITY LEADERS BACK PROFITS FOR GREEDY DEVELOPERS
NOT NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATION.
Gentrification, urban renewal and redevelopment are in fact a form of theft by bankers and developers, who steal from working class communities. Driving families out of their homes violates the basic right of everyone to a safe and secure dwelling to live in. After paying rent and mortgages for decades, making the landlords and banks rich, poor working class families are pushed out of the communities they have helped create.
THE TIME IS HERE TO ACT. UNITED WE CAN SAY NO TO REDEVELOPMENT AND GENTRIFICATION. WE MUST STAND TOGETHER TO PRESERVE ECHO PARK!
EPCC (Echo Park Community Coalition)
Historic Filipino Town, Los Angeles
1740 W. Temple St. Los Angeles, CA 90026
Contact: Jerry Esguerra, Media Advisory, (818) 749 – 0272
