Press Play with Madeleine Brand
In Boyle Heights, Gentrification is Coming Fast
The East Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights has all the ingredients of a neighborhood undergoing gentrification: new first time homeowners, a bunch of art galleries, complaints of rapacious landlords kicking out low income tenants, and activists fighting back.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readThe East Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights has all the ingredients of a neighborhood undergoing gentrification: new first time homeowners, a bunch of art galleries, complaints of rapacious landlords kicking out low income tenants, and activists fighting back. Madeleine and Press Play producer Anna Scott recently spent time there to find out what the change looks like up close.
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The full episode
4 of 5What Do Foreign Reporters Think of the Republican Convention?- 0:30How Do Foreign Reporters Explain Trump?
- 10:49Why is the California Delegation Staying 60 Miles Away From the Convention Hall?
- 21:32The Man In Charge of the Balloons
- 28:24In Boyle Heights, Gentrification is Coming FastYou’re reading this
- 39:16Remembering Garry Marshall