Tag Archives: Gentrification

The LA River, Urban Renewal, and Moving Back to Lincoln Heights

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Arturo Romo
Artist, Teacher, Community Organizer
Talks about two sides of Gentrification, landlords and tenants, historical relining and the segregated present. Arturo discusses Chicano local migration and his return to his grandparents house in Lincoln Heights, the former familial epicenter.

“When a community undergoes gentrification there is no place for working class people except to come back and work for the people that live there now.”

Produced: Mario Mesquita
Sound: Mario Mesquita
Photo: Mario Mesquita

Wayne Perry talks being born and leaving Lincoln Heights, Gentrification, Co-Founding Cermaic Studio 153, & the Flower Shop in Echo Park

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Wayne Perry
Artist, Art Fabricator, Co-founder of Cermaic Studio 153
Talks about his very early years in the neighborhood, his parents, migrating farther east, and his experience on Gentrification, from Echo Park to Lincoln Heights.

From rough streets to flower shops, boutiques, and coffee shops, is there a middle ground to be found?

Ceramic Studio 153
Wayne Perry Art

Produced: Mario Mesquita
Sound: Mario Mesquita
Photo: Mario Mesquita

Co-founder of Ceramic Studio 153–Connecting Community with Access to Art

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Nathalie Sánchez
Artist, Co-founder, Jack-of-all-Trades
Talks about growing up in Cudahy and sharing studio space with her partner, Wayne Perry–born in Lincoln Heights–as well as well known Chicano/a artists, Frank Romero and Sonia Romero, here in the Historical Lincoln Heights Industrial Zone. Living in Echo Park to Highland Park and her observations of gentrification, and questions where she fits into all this.

Addressing Food Justice through a three pronged process: Health and Nutrition, Redistribution of Food, Culinary Training.

Ceramic Studio 153
Nathalie Sánchez Art

Produced: Mario Mesquita
Sound: Mario Mesquita
Photo: Mario Mesquita

Family Ties and a Pull to Return to the Neighbohood his Parents Grew Up In

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Andrew Chavez
Spending holidays and summers at grandmother’s house. Lincoln Heights is a place where people still have deep roots, where parents attended schools still standing, shops and landmarks are still places that current resident stroll by, memories about being touched by social movements and boycotts, as well as changes dictating and shaping the neighborhood to as it stands today.

Listen to Andrew’s mother recollect a changing neighborhood and the time her mother lost her wedding ring.
Listen to Andrew’s father here.

Produced: Mario Mesquita
Sound: Mario Mesquita
Photo: Mario Mesquita

The Good Outweighing the Bad of Gentrification

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Highland Park Resident
Lumis Festival 2015

Compares gentrification in Northeast Los Angeles, the city she left, and Washington D.C., the city she now lives and works in. Shares her favorite food spots and neighborhood landmarks like La Estrella and Café de Leche, as well as businesses that would “come and go”.

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Good Girl Dinette

Produced: Selena Romero
Sound: Mario Mesquita
Photo: Victor Romero

What can a Neighborhood Council do & Gentrification

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Highland Park Neighborhood Council
Lumis Festival 2015

Monica Alcaraz, Highland Park Neighborhood Council’s President, and other members, gives us a brief explanation of what they can do and how they take care of the neighborhood, keeping the community and gentrification in mind.

“One of the things we need to do as a community is  to help preserve what’s there and to help those that don’t have a voice…”

The Marketplace Coverage of Gentrification and Opening of a Bureau by The Wealth & Poverty Desk: York & Fig

Talking about gentrification vs. what actions can be taken about gentrification.

Produced: Mario Mesquita
Sound: Mario Mesquita
Photo: Mario Mesquita

Changes, a Picnic, and Getting to Know Our Neighbors

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Liz Peña
Talks about her recent observations on changes occurring in Lincoln Heights, a neighborhood she has lived in all her life, and what could Lincoln Heights be in the future. Giving a suggestion on how to get neighbors to begin to get to know one another. A simple idea, but brilliant in it’s action: a picnic.

Produced: Mario Mesquita
Sound: Mario Mesquita
Photo: Mario Mesquita