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While the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act in 1968 officially ended “redlining,” the practice of denying Blacks and other communities of color access to housing in certain areas ...
The Eaton fire, burning on the east side of the city near Pasadena, has completely obliterated a vital piece of Black history. Altadena was more than a neighborhood; it was a beacon of opportunity.
La Toya Andrews (Left) and Nancy Ferdinand (Right) embrace as Altadena evacuees gather at a donation center set up at First A.M.E Zion Church in Pasadena to help the community effected by the ...
In 1933, the federally created Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) created maps that coded areas as credit-worthy based on the race of their occupants and the age of the housing stock. These maps, adopted by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) in 1944, established and sanctioned "redlining". Residents in predominately minority ...
Had the annexation succeeded, Pasadena would be the 108th largest city in the United States. With early-1960s redevelopment in Pasadena, the routing of extensions of the 134 and 210 freeways, and lawsuits over the desegregation of Pasadena Unified School District, there was white flight and convulsive racial change in Altadena. In 1960, its ...
Northeast Pasadena is the area north of the 210 freeway, between Hill Avenue and the Eaton Wash. Residents of Northeast Pasadena attend Pasadena High or Marshall Fundamental Secondary School. This neighborhood is served by Metro Local line 267, Foothill Transit Route 187 and Pasadena Transit lines 10, 31, 32, 33, 40 and 60.
After authorities reopened parts of Altadena for the first time since the Eaton fire, residents returned to a grim checkerboard of destroyed homes next to others that were largely spared.
The Lake Avenue divide. Nestled at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains, Altadena is about 15 miles from downtown Los Angeles, but for locals it may as well be a world away.