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The maps were color-coded ... The practice became known as redlining and it thrived for decades ... “That was a big deal to be a Black family and go from a one-bedroom home in Pasadena with no ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Two of Pasadena's historic bridges, the Colorado Street Bridge, built in 1913 and known for its distinctive Beaux Arts arches, light standards, and railings, and the La Loma Bridge, built in 1914, are among the sites listed on the Register. Thirty-one of Pasadena's listings are historic districts, which include multiple contributing properties.
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 ...
Bungalow Heaven is a neighborhood in Pasadena, California, named for the more than 800 small craftsman homes built there from 1900 to 1930, most of which still stand.Much of the area became a landmark district in 1989 [2] and annual historic home tours have been conducted in Bungalow Heaven every year since then.