A brighter vision of LA’s future
Late last year, a blue ribbon panel called the LA2020 Commission said Los Angeles was “barely treading water,” has “failing schools,” suffers from a “crisis of leadership” and called the…
By Avishay Artsy • • 1 min readIt cited all the things we already know: unrelenting traffic, poverty, and a lackluster job growth strategy.
But that’s not the only opinion out there.
A new report that looks farther into LA’s future says there is unlimited potential in LA that needs to be “unleashed.”
The LA2050 initiative is run by the Goldhirsh Foundation in hopes of fostering collaboration among Angelenos. It even offered a million dollars to non-profits and for-profit organizations that came up with ideas on how to make LA a better city.
A report based on those recommendations is out today, and Tara Roth from the Goldhirsh Foundation joined KCRW’s Steve Chiotakis to talk about them.
Here are the My LA2050 winners:
Arts & Cultural Vitality – Hammer Museum
Education – 826LA
Environmental Quality – C.H.C., C-Lab, 596 Acres
Health – Public Matters
Housing – TRUST South L.A.
Income & Employment – E.L.A.C.C. & L.U.R.N.
Public Safety – Homeboy Industries
Social Connectedness – CicLAvia
Wild Card – Mission Asset Fund
Wild Card – No Right Brain Left Behind, Green Dot Public Schools