LA is Going to Turn Watts's Jordan Downs Into an "Urban Village"
@guest #47: Huh? Building lots more "stylish apartments" with taxpayer money to give for free to the welfare class is going to benefit the working class? How? The working class isn’t allowed to live in them. Building an "urban village" like the one near USC or Playa Vista, or whatever, has nothing to do with a giant housing project masquerading as an "urban village."
You Have to Make $72,730 to Afford an Average House in LA
Houses in my neighborhood in North ORANGECOUNTY go for around $375k. They are small 1,200-1,400 sq. ft. late 1950’s tract houses, but the neighborhood and schools are great. Only 15 min. from Dinseyland and 30 min. to DTLA by Metrolink. You don’t have to live in L.A. squalor ! There is life, and plenty of good deals, outisde of the Pasadena-Atwater-Silver Lake-Hollywood-Studio City-WeHo-Santa Monica-South Bay-Long Beach Corridor. Think beyond the box…
LA is Going to Turn Watts's Jordan Downs Into an "Urban Village"
@guest #7: Cabrini Green was single-use towers in the park. And yes, it was a failure. It has since been torn down into a mixed-use urban village and has been a massive success both in terms of social/human scale and as a catalyst for private investment and development in the surrounding areas.
The Sumo Scene in Los Angeles, On a Gentrifying Echo Park
I just really love the whole "no public transport" in the Echo Park/Silver Lake/Atwater Village/Sunset Blvd area. It keeps the "stuck in the 1950s" gas guzzling vibe in tact. Change is not always good. No public transport on the eastside!
LA is Going to Turn Watts's Jordan Downs Into an "Urban Village"
@guest #2:"Actually, NIMBYs weren’t really an issue here, but thanks for inserting the same tired rhetoric into yet another post. "
Yeah, you’re so right you fricking genius. Just look at the recent USC urban village project and the aversion of higher-density there (gentrification fears) in the local community. It’s those types of political events that transcends beyond local community grass-roots efforts and goes into the political mind-sets of city planners and council-members who are risk-averse to their voting constituents. We have seen this played-out time and time again. How about Mayor Bradley’s proposal to dramatically expand the Watts redevelopment project area in 1990, when the Blue Line Station opened at 103rd Street? Why don’t you ask Lois Medlock. Go ahead, Google her name…
Either you don’t know, seem to care about it, or just a douchbag who also fills in the same rhetoric as the NIMBYs themselves.
LA is Going to Turn Watts's Jordan Downs Into an "Urban Village"
@guest #14: Blame the fucking NIMBYs who have slowed down the economic growth in this area with their love-affair of LOW-DENSITY sprawl filled with low-paying jobs and the lack of agglomeration that shuns-away the sense of place, vitality, and the density needed to bring in jobs and economic opportunities.
Get a fucking clue! Just look how difficult it was for USC to push forward their urban village project without forking over 20+ million into the community. Ironically, some of these NIMBYs are the poor people themselves.
Silver Lake, Highland- and Echo Park, Eagle Rock, Atwater. The east side is where you’ll find diversity, culture, progressive thinkers and walkable neighborhoods. I don’t miss living west of the 405.
I have lived in Silver Lake for over 15 years and have watched it evolve into the vital, vibrant neighborhood that it has become. I do miss a few of the older establishments, but in general, it has done nothing but improve. Atwater Village has gentrified in a similar way, but I don’t need Atwater (or Echo Park) when I have Silver Lake just outside my door.