Design and Architecture
Will SB 827 smash local control?, Boyle Heights artists
A proposed state law could radically change California’s residential neighborhoods. Supporters hope the bill will create much-needed housing in the state’s growing cities. Critics say it will ruin their communities.
Protesters in Boyle Heights. Photo credit Serve the People LA.
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2 storiesWill SB 827 smash local control of development?
State senator Scott Wiener has taken the fight over housing to where it hurts: single family neighborhoods.
Read the story13 minBoyle Heights gallery offers protesters “symbolic” closure
A war of attrition against art galleries in the western industrial area of Boyle Heights has caused one to announce its closure and another, Museum as Retail Space, to offer up his artist-activist antagonists the “symbolic and actual closing of my…
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