The Rent Strike That Sparked A Movement by Molly Lambert
https://thelandmag.com/mariachi-plaza-rent-strike-defend-boyle-heights/ Photo by Molly Lambert
Good-Bye to All That: Boyle Heights, Hotbed of Gentrification Protests, Sees Galleries Depart
BY Catherine G. Wagley On the afternoon of Saturday, April 28, sunny T-shirt weather in Los Angeles, a couple dozen people assembled outside the industrial building that housed the art exhibition and…
Los Angeles Tests the Power of ‘Play Streets’
by:Patricia Leigh Brown LOS ANGELES — The temporary transformation of Fickett Street in Boyle Heights began with yellow shades resembling huge kites suspended over the sun-scorched asphalt. Soon, a …
Rent strike wins in East LA
By Scott Scheffer Residents of the East Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights are savoring a rent-strike victory organized by a group of tenants. The Mariachi rent strike forced a rich real estat…