Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Re-envisioning L.A.’s Civic Center, Watts Riots: Housing Policies

For years, city planners have been floating ideas to make L.A.'s Civic Center more cohesive and now that downtown is booming, there’s a new urgency to re-envision the space. And, we look at how housing policies contributed to unrest in Watts 50 years ago. It’s a story of racist housing policy and segregation and we’re still seeing the effects of those policies today.