There Goes the Neighborhood

'I Didn’t Want to Evict You'

If you have an affordable place to rent in L.A., you hang on to it for dear life. As evictions in Los Angeles are on the rise, and tenants are learning how to fight their landlords. This eight-part series is supported by the Conrad N.

By Saul Gonzalez • Sep 29, 2017 • 27m Listen

This Rampart Village building is at the heart of a fight between a developer and residents fighting to stay in the place they've rented for decades. Photo credit: Larry Hirshowitz. See more photos.

Evictions are skyrocketing, and more and more tenants are learning to fight their landlords.

At one aging apartment building near downtown Los Angeles, the new owner went out on a financial limb to afford to buy it. The only way he can pay back his loan? Increase rents from as little as $500 a month to nearly $2,000. That means the current tenants have to go. But many of them are Central American immigrants who have lived there for decades, are related to each other, and are now gathering around Uver Santa Cruz -- a tenant’s right activist determined to stay.

*This episode contains explicit language*

Find out how Rampart Village has changed.

Data from the Longitudinal Tract Database created by John R. Logan, Zengwang Xu, and Brian Stults. Maps created by Michael Bader.

Culture

Los Angeles

Housing & Development

There Goes the Neighborhood

'I Didn’t Want to Evict You'

If you have an affordable place to rent in L.A., you hang on to it for dear life. As evictions in Los Angeles are on the rise, and tenants are learning how to fight their landlords. This eight-part series is supported by the Conrad N.

By Saul Gonzalez • Sep 29, 2017 • 27m Listen

Evictions are skyrocketing, and more and more tenants are learning to fight their landlords.

*This episode contains explicit language*

Find out how Rampart Village has changed.

Data from the Longitudinal Tract Database created by John R. Logan, Zengwang Xu, and Brian Stults. Maps created by Michael Bader.

Culture

Los Angeles

Housing & Development

There Goes the Neighborhood

'I Didn’t Want to Evict You'

If you have an affordable place to rent in L.A., you hang on to it for dear life. As evictions in Los Angeles are on the rise, and tenants are learning how to fight their landlords. This eight-part series is supported by the Conrad N.

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There Goes the Neighborhood

'I Didn’t Want to Evict You'

If you have an affordable place to rent in L.A., you hang on to it for dear life. As evictions in Los Angeles are on the rise, and tenants are learning how to fight their landlords. This eight-part series is supported by the Conrad N.

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