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What Next - LA’s Housing Crisis Hits A Boiling Point

What Next - LA’s Housing Crisis Hits A Boiling Point

Who owns the public park?

Slate News · Slate Podcasts

April 1, 202121m 49s

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Show Notes

Los Angeles’s Echo Park Lake is home to swan boats, running trails and space for members of it’s rapidly gentrifying community to gather during the pandemic. Up until last week, it was also home to over 100 people living in tents on the west side of the park. The encampment became the focal point of LA’s housing affordability crisis when the housed members of the Echo Park neighborhood called for it to be cleared. 


Guest: Benjamin Oreskes, metro report for the Los Angeles Times. 


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