Uncategorized | South LA Tree Coalition https://southlatrees.org Protect Our Urban Forests. Sat, 08 Jul 2023 09:30:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://southlatrees.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-slat-tree-32x32.jpg Uncategorized | South LA Tree Coalition https://southlatrees.org 32 32 Saving Cornelius Johnson’s Olympic Oak https://southlatrees.org/saving-cornelius-johnsons-olympic-oak/ Wed, 03 May 2023 18:53:06 +0000 https://southlatrees.org/?p=1012 Real estate developers have drawn a bullseye around many of the most historic neighborhoods in Los Angeles, where they are displacing working class tenants, demolishing naturally occurring affordable housing, and getting parcels rezoned to build out-of-scale new projects that nobody who lives in these communities can afford.

They are aided in this harmful work by elected officials and civil servants operating under the shadow of a massive Federal racketeering investigation. Most of these property sales, land use hearings, evictions and demolitions happen quickly and are only observed by members of the “city family” and a small community of tenants’ rights advocates and historic preservationists.

But every once in a while, the forces of destruction target a Los Angeles landmark that’s so significant, the whole world takes notice.

by Kim Cooper, The Esotouric Blog

Full story here.

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