THE ROAD TO AND FROM LOS ANGELES’ MEASURE S: THE NEIGHBORHOOD INTEGRITY INITIATIVE A discussion with UCLA housing and land use experts. In March 2017, voters in the City of Los Angeles cast their ballots on the Measure S—the neighborhood integrity initiative. This initiative would have imposed a two-year moratorium on all
Public Housing and Activism Series II JORDAN DOWNS We turned our attention back to Los Angeles as a follow up from the screening of the “70 Acres in Chicago” and the discussion of the destruction of the Cabrini Green development. The UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, Institute on Inequality and
Public Housing and Activism Series I “70 ACRES IN CHICAGO” For 70 years, there stood a Chicago public housing community known as Cabrini Green. Home to thousands, misunderstood by millions, Cabrini Green once towered over Chicago’s most valuable neighborhoods. A looming reminder of inequality and poverty, Cabrini’s high-rises were demolished and an
