City Rising | KCET
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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City Rising: The Informal Economy
California is the world's fifth largest economy — yet, hiding in plain sight are workers who labor off the books, unprotected and unregulated. Follow four California workers organizing to find pathways for legalization and protection.
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City Rising shows how gentrification is deeply rooted in a history of discriminatory laws and practices in the United States.
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A look at different eras and movements defining the informal economy and the systematic dislocation of many people from the labor market — including people of color, women and immigrants.
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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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City Rising: The Informal Economy
From the beginning of our nation’s history our laws, institutions and social norms have contributed to the creation of a segmented or dual economy. Many people — including people of color, women and immigrants — were excluded from the benefits of society, forcing them to find alternative ways to make a living in a parallel economy.
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City Rising
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 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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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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The Future: How Do We Formalize Informality?
The informal economy is widespread, diverse, and deeply tied to the formal economy. It is also full of paradoxes and contradictions, which make it difficult to find simple solutions.
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Neoliberalism, Globalization, and the Magnification of the Informal Economy
Not only did neoliberalism redefine the role of the state, it also intensified the speed and depth of globalization, which radically transformed the economy.
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From Slavery to Social Contract: An Economy Designed to Leave Out Many Workers
Capitalism is perceived to be a result of policy, social norms, and race and gender discrimination that have ensured a large pool of workers willing to work for low wages.
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The New Normal: Freelancing, Hustling and Informal Labor
Today, as the middle class continues to disappear, a growing number of people make a living through alternative forms of work: freelancing, hustling on the side, and permanently temping.
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From Land Owners to 'Criminals': An Expert's Personal Reflection on Mexican Migration
While Mexican immigrants continue to be demonized and characterized as “criminals,” “drug dealers,” “rapists,” “illegal aliens” and “invaders” by American leaders and millions of citizens, they have essentially become “foreigners in their own land.
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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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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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