scholarly journals Effects of Transit-Oriented Development on Affordable Housing, Job Accessibility, and Affordability of Transportation in the Metro Green Line Corridor of Los Angeles (CA)

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey M Desmuke
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Green Line ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Job Accessibility

The Love Story against Displacement

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-28
Author(s):  
Leigh-Anna Hidalgo
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Development Organization ◽  
Love Story ◽  
Boyle Heights ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Local Residents

Fotonovelas, or photo-based comics, are a form of popular visual culture with a long history within Latin America and US Latinx communities. In 2016, I was part of a cross-disciplinary team of scholars from University of California, Los Angeles, who partnered with the East LA Community Corporation (ELACC)—through an Urban Humanities Initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Based in Boyle Heights, ELACC is a community-driven development organization focused on building affordable housing for local residents and improving quality of life in the neighborhood. Given the lack of engagement of residents in large-scale development projects, ELACC urged us to develop an urban humanities pedagogical and political tool for a campaign promoting just transit-oriented development (TOD). Our team draws on the fotonovela medium in a community-driven TOD campaign due to its ability to bridge multiple epistemological and praxis divisions in urban struggles, community organizations, and marginalized communities. I present the resulting fotonovela and examine how it politicizes narratives that challenge current urban development processes.

How Civic Action Works

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Lichterman
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Social Problem Solving ◽  
Institutional Pressures ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Advocacy Campaigns ◽  
Patterns Of Interaction

This book renews the tradition of inquiry into collective, social problem-solving. The book follows grassroots activists, nonprofit organization staff, and community service volunteers in three coalitions and twelve organizations in Los Angeles as they campaign for affordable housing, develop new housing, or address homelessness. The book shows that to understand how social advocates build their campaigns, craft claims, and choose goals, we need to move beyond well-established thinking about what is strategic. The book presents a pragmatist-inspired sociological framework that illuminates core tasks of social problem-solving by grassroots and professional advocates alike. It reveals that advocates' distinct styles of collective action produce different understandings of what is strategic, and generate different dilemmas for advocates because each style accommodates varying social and institutional pressures. We see, too, how patterns of interaction create a cultural filter that welcomes some claims about housing problems while subordinating or delegitimating others. These cultural patterns help solve conceptual and practical puzzles, such as why coalitions fragment when members agree on many things, and what makes advocacy campaigns separate housing from homelessness or affordability from environmental sustainability. The book concludes by turning this action-centered framework toward improving dialogue between social advocates and researchers.

Gentrification, Displacement, and the Right to the City

2019 ◽  
pp. 168-194
Author(s):  
Jan Lin
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Family Networks ◽  
Social Violence ◽  
Accumulation By Dispossession ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Examines the impacts of the sharpening gentrification process in Northeast Los Angeles and its socioeconomic and racial overtones as immigrant working class Latino/a families are increasingly threatened by displacement through rent increases, evictions, and socially traumatic uprooting of multi-family networks. Gentrification is tied to neoliberal local state efforts in Los Angeles to incentivize private investment through urban policy strategies like transit-oriented development, transit villages and small lot housing development. I argue the creative frontier of urban restructuring in Northeast LA also generates social violence expressing capitalism’s tendency to foster “accumulation by dispossession” that has been countered by neighborhood “right to the city” movements. I examine the rise of the urban social movements like Friends of Highland Park and Northeast LA Alliance that advocate for the rights of those threatened by housing displacement and eviction, address community and environmental impacts of new high-density housing projects, and campaign for more socially just housing and urban planning policies in Los Angeles. There is also examination of the plight of the homeless and rehabilitating gang members

Boulevard Transition, Hipster Aesthetics, and Anti-Gentrification Struggles in Los Angeles

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Lin
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Art Galleries ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Market Rate ◽  
The City

I examine street-level dynamics of gentrification in Northeast Los Angeles, where artists and residential pioneers who contributed to neighbourhood revitalization have subsequently been threatened with displacement by speculator-investors and corporate developers. In the “neo-bohemia” of Northeast L.A., the aesthetics of countercultural and ethnic subcultural expression have been appropriated by hipster entrepreneurs and gentrifiers. Neoliberal urban policies like public incentives for market rate housing and transit oriented development have sparked accelerated gentrification, countered by anti-gentrification movements from Latinx protestors who view art galleries and hipster aesthetics as harbingers of gentrification. The aesthetics of art and theatre are also part of the toolkit of anti-gentrification activists as they take to the streets to claim their right to the city.

Retailer Behavior Near Fixed Transit Lines in Los Angeles: A Spatial Autoregressive Probit Model to Evaluate Retail Clustering

2020 ◽  
pp. 0739456X2090894 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig T. Olwert ◽  
Chih-Hao Wang ◽  
Vicente Arellano ◽  
David Oulrey
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Probit Model ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Probit Models ◽  
Spatial Autoregressive ◽  
Transit Station ◽  
In Transit ◽  
Retailer Behavior

Aggregate studies of retail uses around fixed transit lines and in transit-oriented development are scarce. In total, 8,402 retail locations were identified within half mile of twenty-seven stations in Los Angeles County, USA. Sixteen spatial autoregressive (SAR) probit models help us identify five retail categories (everyday uses, opportunists, rivals, hotels, and large footprints) based on how the retail uses self-cluster, cluster with other uses, choose transit station type preferences, prefer building types and are influenced by gentrification. The results help planners understand that aesthetic improvements and zoning changes are likely to lead to increased restaurant presence and specialized retail clusters, while strip malls further from stations beneficially provide locations for everyday uses.

scholarly journals ASSESSMENT OF NEIGHBOURHOOD AFFORDABILITY BASED ON HOUSING AND TRANSPORTATION COSTS IN KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Soheil Sabri ◽  
Ahmad Nazri M. Ludin ◽  
Foziah Johar
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Transportation Cost ◽  
Transportation Costs ◽  
Housing Cost ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Medium Cost

One of the primary aims of transit-oriented development (TOD) is to reduce auto dependency, especially for low-income as well as senior residents. This study aims at providing some guiding principles for development of affordable housing with respect to TOD concept. As such, the study employed an index called Affordability Index (AI) and adapted for the study area to assess the neighbourhoods' affordability. It is composed of housing cost, household transportation cost, and household income. The analyses were conducted on three neighbourhoods in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The results reveal that the AI is lower for both owners and renters in the neighbourhood farther away from the LRT station, where there is less public transit facility, despite the existence of more affordable housing. On the contrary, the index is high in the neighbourhood where the distance to LRT station is shorter, connectivity index is higher, and there are more public transport facilities, despite the presence of high- and medium-cost housings. These findings can be used to plan for suitable public transport facilities in view of neighbourhood affordability.

scholarly journals Contradictions of Transit-Oriented Development in Low-Income Neighborhoods: The Case Study of Rosengård in Malmö, Sweden

Urban Science ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laleh Derakhti ◽  
Guy Baeten
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Poverty ◽  
Housing System ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Significant Development ◽  
Shed Light

Transit-oriented development (TOD) has become a leading model of urban planning worldwide that promises to meet a broad range of local and regional objectives: improving mobility, expanding ridership, attracting investment, reducing urban poverty, improving quality of life, making affordable housing and fostering urban integration. At the same time, the implementation of TOD in many cities has raised concerns about gentrification, displacement, re-segregation, and more polarization. This article aims to shed light on these issues by bringing together previously disparate literature that mentions these contradictions and discusses policymakers’ hopes and critics’ concern for the implementation of a newly started TOD project in a universal housing system in Rosengård—a segregated, low-income neighborhood in Malmö, Sweden. Although policy advocates view the project as a significant development strategy for a more sustainable Malmö, there are also real concerns about gentrification and the potential displacement of low-income residents. Furthermore, the mixed-methods study showes how integration might be achieved, but concerns have arisen about the possible exclusion of the current low-income residents, which brings up issues of inequality, representation of poverty, and marginalization.

Hybrid Problem Solving

2020 ◽  
pp. 217-252
Author(s):  
Paul Lichterman
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Civic Action ◽  
South Los Angeles ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Community Benefits ◽  
Real Estate Developer ◽  
Close Juxtaposition ◽  
The Will ◽  
Community Benefits Agreement

This chapter evaluates how the close juxtaposition of civic and noncivic in hybrid civic action provides better ways to discern whether or not, and how, nonprofits express the will of people in their immediate locale, and whether or not they pose an effective alternative to governmental action, as some commentators argue. All that should help clarify how civic action really works. The chapter focuses mostly on a locally prominent and successful, nonprofit affordable housing developer, Housing Solutions for Los Angeles (HSLA). It then compares HSLA briefly with efforts by a Tenants of South Los Angeles (ISLA) committee to administer the housing provisions of the community benefits agreement (CBA) that ISLA's campaign won from the Manchester apartments developer. This was a different kind of hybrid. ISLA's affordable housing work for the community ultimately was both financed and constrained by a big, for-profit real estate developer — the Manchester property owner.

How Homelessness Does Not Become a Housing Problem

2020 ◽  
pp. 198-216
Author(s):  
Paul Lichterman
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Public Issue ◽  
Service Workers ◽  
Housing Problem ◽  
South Los Angeles ◽  
Cultural Conditions

This chapter explores how, if at all, housing and homelessness advocates made claims about both homelessness and housing problems together. Many advocates make fleeting claims about homelessness or homeless people. Yet they do not talk much about homelessness as a housing problem, even though it may seem like the most urgent one. Here is where investigating discursive fields and style can help. The chapter compares Tenants of South Los Angeles and Housing Justice coalition members' claims about homelessness with those of professional-led volunteer efforts organized to address homelessness as a problem in itself. The evidence suggests that in Los Angeles, cultural conditions conspired to make homelessness a marginal topic across different quarters of the housing advocacy world. And homeless service workers talked little, if at all, about affordable housing as a public issue.

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