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

Lincoln Heights is a Diamond in the Rough

Kasandra Hernandez
Radio Personality
Discusses her life, loves, heart breaks, and deaths here at home in Lincoln Heights. “From Lincoln Park to Broadway, to the high school…This is home” Thinking about gentrification without pushing current residents out and giving her opinion on ways of coexistence for future.

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

Favorite Bakery on the Busy Broadway Corridor

Frank Wada, Lincoln Heights Neighborhood Council Member
Identifies his favorite food spot along the busy Lincoln Heights Broadway corridor

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