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A timeline of homelessness in Los Angeles


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Authorities had pushed out most of the 1,800 families who lived in the Mexican American neighborhoods of Chavez Ravine to build a public housing project called Elysian Park Heights to house 17,000 people. But at the height of anti-communist hysteria, real estate interests, seeing their profits threatened by public housing, launch a successful campaign against it, financing opposition groups that call it “socialist housing.” The project is scratched, and Mayor Norris Poulson promises that no new ones will be approved.

A bulldozer razes the Arechiga family home in Chavez Ravine on May 8, 1959. Homes were removed to make way for Dodger Stadium.

(Los Angeles Times)

People inside and outside a trailer.

After having their homes destroyed by bulldozers on May 13, 1959, Chavez Ravine residents lived in a trailer.

(Los Angeles Times)



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