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In Los Angeles, screenshots show the owner of a fourplex in Silver Lake told a tester that Section 8 wasn't a possibility. As did the property manager of a two-bedroom listing in Palms, which ...
The editorial further stated: "But we do feel, and strongly, that housing equality cannot safely be achieved at the expense of still another basic right." [33] [34] [35] According to the Los Angeles Times, the ability to discriminate against home buyers or renters by race, color, and creed was considered a "basic property right." [26]
The CRD is the State agency responsible for enforcing California's civil rights laws and is the largest state civil rights agency in the nation. CRD has five offices located in Elk Grove, Fremont, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Los Angeles. The Elk Grove office is designated as "headquarters" and is where the CRD executive team works. [10] Divisions:
Audits of the housing market in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, and many other major metropolitan areas have shown discrimination toward African Americans continuing into the 80s, long after the anti-discrimination laws were passed. [6]
By the 1940s, 95% of Los Angeles and southern California housing was off-limits to certain minorities. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Minorities who had served in World War II or worked in L.A.'s defense industries returned to face increasing patterns of discrimination in housing .
Some 80% of low-income Los Angeles renters pay over half their income toward housing costs, according to data released this week by the nonprofit Angeleno Project.
One empirical study completed in 2002 analyzed survey data from a random sample of blacks from Atlanta, Boston, Detroit and Los Angeles. [35] The results of this study found that the housing preferences of blacks are largely attributed to discrimination and white hostility, not a desire to live with a similar racial group. [35]
The Los Angeles Housing Authority began acquiring the land of Chavez Ravine in 1951 through both voluntary purchases and the exercise of eminent domain. In furtherance of the public housing proposal, the city acquired almost all of the land of Chavez Ravine and razed nearly the entire community over the period from 1952 to 1953.