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City Rising is a multi-platform documentary series in partnership with The California Endowment that has examined gentrification — its historical roots, economic role and social consequences. In this season, City Rising investigates informal economies — how workers who labor off the books, sometimes hiding in plain sight, are organizing to find pathways for legalization and protection.
City Rising illuminates the journey of California's neighborhoods advocating for responsible development. The documentary series highlights individuals facing discrimination but fighting to change policy and improve upward mobility for their communities. The effects of these movements are far-reaching, and their voices will ultimately impact the social health of communities across the country and beyond.
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E1: Legacy
From the displacement of Native peoples to the enforcement of Jim Crow, the history of in U.S. land policy and practice is a history of inequities.
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E2: Resilience
Communities that have historically been disinvested, such as Boyle Heights, Santa Ana and East Oakland, have established rich community networks, informal economies and culture.
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E3: Return to the Cities
Cities have become more entrepreneurial, seeking private investment that fuels large-scale gentrification.
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E4: Impact
Laws that favor property owners and real estate developers have left many residents without a safety net to protect themselves from displacement.
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E5: Mobilization
As more tenants face displacement, they are recognizing their power in numbers and creating a “renter nation” movement advocating for their right to property and equitable development.
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Season 2 of City Rising will follow four California communities, struggling to organize and find pathways for the legalization and protection of their labor.
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After the Great Depression, the federal government backed mortgage lending as a route to homeownership and wealth accumulation, but redlined minority communities.
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Legislators and developers are critical to how we address this issue, as are landlords and tenants, but our actions are framed by our thinking about housing.
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This multi-platform documentary shows how gentrification is deeply rooted in a history of discriminatory laws and practices in the United States. City Rising follows the journey of California communities that are fighting gentrification and features a growing movement of advocates seeking responsible development across the state. People of color who cherish their neighborhood's culture and sense of community are mobilizing against unsustainable rents and other forces that they see are pushing neighbors into homelessness.
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The Neighborhoods
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The Gentrification of Santa Ana: From Origin to Resistance
From the late 1800s, Santa Ana has gone from being a historic urban center in wealthy white and conservative Orange County to a large center with a Mexican, working-class and immigrant identity.
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City Rising
The Historical Roots of Gentrification in Boyle Heights
Perhaps more than any other community in Southeast L.A., Boyle Heights' residents are the most at-risk of displacement and a loss of community due to rising gentrification.
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The Gentrification of Sacramento's Oak Park
Up until recently, the tight-knit Oak Park community carried the stigma of being a neighborhood with a high poverty rate, gang violence and neglect. For a long time, that was mostly true.
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The History of South Central Los Angeles and Its Struggle with Gentrification
Rising property values, no rent controls, Metro's expansion and the arrival of the Rams all contribute to the area's complex gentrification issues.
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Articles
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The Problem With the Second Phase of Gentrification
This first wave of gentrification did not displace many people, but then the second phase happened.
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How One Organization Is Providing Small Business Owners the Help They Need
Since 2013, Leadership for Urban Renewal Network has created sustainable communities through promoting and building places that meet the diverse needs of residents.
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Sacramento Housing Alliance: Dispelling Myths About Affordable Housing
Through its annual Affordable Housing Bus Tour, Sacramento Housing Alliance facilitates discussions and plans for affordable housing by showing community members real, tangible examples of how affordable housing works in their communities.
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City Rising
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: A Tradition of Justice
Since 1929, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles has provided countless poor and low-income people with legal help or a crisis that threatens their shelter, security or basic needs.
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Educate, Agitate and Organize: Lessons on Community Organizing in Latinx Communities
As a Boyle Heights native, Alvaro Huerta recollects the legacy of community organizing within the Chicana/o-Latina/o communities and gives advice on how to sustain that activism.
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Persistent Gentrification in Long Beach Increases Student Homelessness and Debt
“They’re working several jobs in order to make ends meet in addition to going to school. They come in hoping that financial aid will cover everything and they find out it will not.”
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Neighborhood Data for Social Change
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The Eastern Coachella Valley’s Immigrant Communities
Because of limited opportunities, immigrants in this region are often employed in low-wage industries and are likely to face limited economic mobility.
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Rent-Burdened Households in the Coachella Valley
Historically high housing costs and low vacancy rates have pushed California’s rental rates to some of the highest in the nation.
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Community Profile: Palm Desert
Palm Desert is located between the cities of Palm Springs and Indio in Riverside County southeast of the San Bernardino Mountains.
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Coachella Valley Communities to Get Tools for Progress
A new partnership between local nonprofit Lift to Rise and the University of Southern California´s Price Center for Social Innovation, will mine public data to help the community illuminate the issues and create solutions.
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The Tale of Two Cities: Voter Turnout in Acton and North Hollywood
Acton and North Hollywood tell two different stories in voter turnout between 2008 and 2016, showing the variety of ways communities become engaged in the political process.
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Boyle Heights Residents Face Significant Obstacles to Homeownership
Addressing low homeownership rates requires a multi-faceted approach that addresses the various barriers to homeownership such as affordability, access to credit, immigration status and linguistic isolation.
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