Los Feliz Ledger Read by 100,000+ Residents and Business Owners in Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Vol 16. No. 1 July 2020 Atwater Village, Echo Park & Hollywood Hills Our Own History of Racism and Redlining By Erin Hickey Pinheiro, Ledger Senior Contributing Writer When nationwide protests holland Fountain and hanging According to data from tate board, as historian Rich- Depression. The policy rescued began in June, following the Black Lives Matter signs on the 2010 United States Cen- ard Rothstein details in his homeowners whose mortgages in-custody murder of George windows and balconies. sus, Los Feliz is 64% white 2017 book The Color of Law. were near foreclosure, and its Floyd on May 25th by Min- But while locals are sup- and 3% Black. Silver Lake is appraisers used a color system neapolis police, local neigh- portive of the Black Lives Mat- 42% white and 3% Black. REDLINING to assess loan risk, with the borhoods were quick to join ter cause, demographically the Several factors have con- One such policy, redlin- safest neighborhoods colored the call, weaving fabric names area remains overwhelmingly tributed to this demographic ing, began in 1933 as part of green and the riskiest, red. through chain link at the Silver white—a statistic that can’t be makeup, including federal President Franklin Roosevelt’s According to Rothstein’s Lake Reservoir, staging family- separated from the neighbor- policies, zoning laws and a Home Owners Loan Corpora- book, “A neighborhood earned friendly protests near the Mul- hood’s racist past. segregationist national real es- tion in the midst of the Great see REDLINING page 6 REAL ESTATE: COMMUNITY NEWS: CRIME: Locals desperate after SCHOOL NEWS: EAST SIDE EYE: New Taix design rankles locals, King student films on the virtual once-peaceful encampment turns LAUSD says no for now to defund- Local’s guide to Griffith Park hits page 5 big screen, page 10 violent, page 11 ing school police, page 14 Skylight shelves, losfelizledger.com Los Feliz Ledger ON THE COVER (clockwise from top): Front page of the Los Angeles [LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER] Sentinel, May 6, 1948; Area descriptions for Silver Lake and Moreno COVID-19 CASES Highlands and Wilshire Country Club District, from the federal gov- LOCALLY We update the COVID-19 situation daily ernment’s Home Owner’s Loan Corporation 1935 – 1940; Picketers march in front of the Los Angeles Breakfast Club to protest a meet- on our website, both with stories as well as ing of the Greater Los Angeles Citizens Council, a Pasadena segrega- graphics. Because of the dizzying amount of tionist group, Valley Times, August 4, 1964; Text from the Los Feliz numbers given by Los Angeles County offi- Heights Restrictions, circa 1940; Cover of Los Feliz Heights Restric- cials each day on COVID-19 we feel telling tions; Complaint of Housing Discrimination by Los Feliz’s Taylor the story of the novel coronavirus visually family, 1965; “Negro Who Was to Have Moved to Edendale ‘Headed is the best way to understand it and to see Off,’’’ Los Angeles Times, October 4, 1907; Eagle Rock Advertisement trends. Please visit losfelizledger.com to track stating, “The residents of Eagle Rock are all of the White or Cauca- the virus especially in our own communities, sian Race!” Underneath: Image of Los Angeles map coded by colors like the charts here which show cases as well where green was considered the best or “first grade,” blue, “second as deaths, to date, in our neighborhoods. grade,” yellow, “third grade” and red, the most undesirable or “haz- ardous,” was “fourth grade.” The color-coding was created by the federal government’s Home Owner’s Loan program (mentioned above) to assess risk for mortgage loans, according to the interac- tive website Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America. 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Local areas have lost continues, some industries will this time of same space, such as working This latest new norm— about 17,000 jobs since regain jobs quicker than others, “lockdown” from home. This would be virtual meetings and online March, when the COVID-19 and unfortunately, many jobs mode, I came called a new norm. And one classes—is showing up at se- pandemic forced business clo- may not come back right away,” across a writ- wonders how many people nior centers and community sures, while Los Angeles has Galperin’s report reads. ten quote at- will consider working at home organizations as a means of lost more than 300,000 jobs The Hollywood Hills, tached to my even after the pandemic. One retaining activities that were citywide, according to a report East Hollywood and Echo Good Earth Sweet and Spicy thing for sure is that the traffic popular before the pandemic. released in June by City Con- Park fared the worst locally, tea bag. It really made sense to volume is down! It is a way to maintain the or- troller Ron Galperin. each losing about 17% of jobs me: “Life isn’t about waiting Another new norm is us- ganization’s continuity. Senior centers such as the According to Galperin’s re- since March. In the Holly- Griffith Park Adult Commu- port, the industries hit the hard- wood Hills, that translated to Without venturing out, you can still enjoy nity Center normally provide est were food service and hospi- about 6,500 jobs, in East Hol- classes, conferences, meetings and conversa- activities for learning and tality, which lost about 70,000 lywood, about 2,400 and in pleasure, promoting social en- jobs citywide since March; re- Echo Park about 1,000. tions by using a computer or telephone. gagement above all. tail, 33,000; healthcare, 27,000; A request for clarifica- Yes, you want to learn a and information—a broad cat- tion from Galperin’s office on egory that includes publishing, the numbers, especially those for the storm to pass; it’s about ing a mask when there is pos- new skill or continue a hobby broadcasting, motion picture pertaining to the Hollywood learning to dance in the rain.” sibility of spreading a disease or interest. But it also is nice to and sound recording, telecom- Hills, which to be seemed an Thus, if we are unable to through droplets of moisture be around others for conversa- munications and data process- outlier, was not returned. carry on our usual social rou- from our mouths and noses. tion or sharing. ing—19,000. Silver Lake, Los Feliz and tines, we have to learn new The flu and the common cold Now, senior centers across Those industries were af- Atwater Village fared slightly ways, because this storm may are good candidates for the use the country that had to close fected the most locally as better, with those areas each continue over a longer time of masks, not just COVID-19. due to the virus are participat- well, with the food service losing about 16% of jobs—in than anticipated and, as such, It is common in some coun- ing in this new norm—and industry losing the most jobs line with the citywide aver- we could be in danger of isola- tries to wear a mask even when these new ways may extend by far—about 4,000—in the age of 16.2%.