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Will The Reef gentrify South LA, displace residents?
The controversial South LA development project called The Reef has been approved, and community activists are concerned about gentrification and displacement.
By Madeleine Brand • • 51m ListenThe City Planning Commission approved a huge, controversial development project in South LA called The Reef. It would bring more than 1,000 housing units and retail space to a part of the city that has been largely left out of LA’s development boom. But community activists are concerned about gentrification and displacement.
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5 storiesWill The Reef gentrify South LA, displace residents?
The City Planning Commission Thursday approved a huge, controversial development project for South Los Angeles . It’s called The Reef and it would bring more than 1,000 apartments and condos, a grocery store and retail to a part of the city that, so far, has been largely left out of LA’s development boom.
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