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Racial Covenants
2:40
After the Great Depression, the federal government redlined minority communities.
Gentrification and Displacement: Legacy
15:44
The history of U.S. land policy and practice is a history of inequities.
Gentrification and Displacement: Impact
15:29
Many consider housing as something only those with money can buy.
Gentrification and Displacement: The Future
15:13
Housing patterns are entrenched, like California's official records of racial covenants.
Gentrification and Displacement: Return to the Cities
13:52
Hallmarks of gentrification transform a neighborhood, but for whom?
Gentrification and Displacement: Mobilization
16:54
Resident-led grassroots organizations are springing up in cities around the country.
Gentrification and Displacement: Resilience
14:14
Communities that have historically been disinvested in have established rich networks.
Racial Covenants
After the Great Depression, the federal government backed mortgage lending as a route to homeownership and wealth accumulation, but redlined minority communities.
Caridad Vazquez (left) and daughter Esmeralda Carillo (right). | Still from "City Rising: The Informal Economy"
For decades, many immigrants — primarily women — have been criminalized for supporting their families with street vending income. 
A group of port truck drivers. | Still from "City Rising: The Informal Economy"
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As an independent contractor, Daniel “Seko” Uaina drives merchandise for some of the largest corporations in the world yet he struggles to make ends meet. 
City Rising: Los Angeles Skyline
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Watch the broadcast TV version of "City Rising."
Is housing a human right?
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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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