{"id":54424,"date":"2025-07-10T15:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T15:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/54424\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T15:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T15:21:15","slug":"a-timeline-of-homelessness-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/54424\/","title":{"rendered":"A timeline of homelessness in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix&#8221;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>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 \u201csocialist housing.\u201d The project is scratched, and Mayor Norris Poulson promises that no new ones will be approved.<\/p>\n<p>            <img class=\"image\" alt=\"A bulldozer razes a house.\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752160874_719_\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>         <\/p>\n<p>A bulldozer razes the Arechiga family home in Chavez Ravine on May 8, 1959. Homes were removed to make way for Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>(Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n<p>                   <img class=\"image\" alt=\"People inside and outside a trailer.\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"961\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752160875_166_\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>         <\/p>\n<p>After having their homes destroyed by bulldozers on May 13, 1959, Chavez Ravine residents lived in a trailer.<\/p>\n<p>(Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n<p>                     <img class=\"image\" alt=\"\"  width=\"46\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752160875_831_\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix&#8221;&gt; Authorities had pushed out most of the 1,800 families who lived in the Mexican American neighborhoods&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[40289,40290,1582,276,3059,7265,40291,6276,2961,224,5337,40287,3546,31111,40288,290,625,40293,40292],"class_list":{"0":"post-54424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-9th-u-s-circuit-court","9":"tag-appeals-rule","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-county","13":"tag-homelessness","14":"tag-housing-crunch","15":"tag-l-a","16":"tag-la","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-other-city","20":"tag-people","21":"tag-population","22":"tag-skid-row","23":"tag-state","24":"tag-street","25":"tag-sufficient-shelter-bed","26":"tag-tent"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114829622526416703","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}