BOOM has a sad and revealing story about the subtle ways that gentrification works and a beloved (pseudonymous) community garden in either Pico-Union or Westlake. For years, this garden was tended by locals, mostly poor women, who found gardening a relaxing break from their stressful lives, but a nonprofit organization bought the property in 2007 and began both to make improvements and to impose a new way of operating that marginalized the people who'd built the garden in the first place. Eventually, it became a whole different place. [BOOM]
Filed under:
Loading comments...