The Stolen Land Under Dodger Stadium
Jun 19, 2020
3 minutes
CLAYTON TRUTOR
ON JULY 24, 1950, the city of Los Angeles sent a letter to the residents of the Palo Verde, La Loma, and Bishop neighborhoods. Their homes would soon be purchased by the city, and their neighborhoods, which would come to be known collectively as Chavez Ravine, would be demolished to make room for a public housing project. This was made possible by the expanded eminent domain powers provided to municipal housing authorities by the Federal Housing Act of 1949.
While the city’s housing authority cajoled the area’s residents—predominately Mexican-American, largely poor and working-class—into
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