Study of Tenants in Los Angeles, 1979, October

This is a study of tenant attitudes and experiences. The survey included questions on type of residence, persons living with the respondent, monthly rent and what it includes, neighborhood conditions, condition of the residence, relations with owner and manager, respondent's and respondent's family's history of home and property ownership, opinions on rents in the area, opinions on rent control, opinions of landlords in general, problems with present and past landlords, tenant organizations, political participation and ideology, importance of rent control as a local political issue, labor union and other organizational memberships, opinions on how much control a tenant should have, private ownership of housing in general, government actions to help tenants, age, employment, education, income, race, sex, zip code, number of telephones, and language in which interview was conducted. There are 1598 respondents in the Los Angeles file. An additional 500 cases were attempted for the Santa Monica file

When Planning Fails: Protecting the Neighborhood in Vested Development Rights Disputes

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Learning About Bilingual, Multicultural Organizing

This paper is a reflection on several years' struggle to establish a federation of housing cooperatives in a low-income, multi-ethnic, bilingual community in Los Angeles. The history of this organization has significant implications for the study of multicultural organization in general, and for the modeling of multicultural, as opposed to assimilative or pluralistic, society. The concept of multiculturalism has grown in importance as the melting pot myths of the past and shortcomings of pluralism are fully exposed

When Planning Fails: Protecting the Neighborhood in Vested Development Rights Disputes

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The Importance of Class

Class can best be understood as emerging from the complex interrelationship of work and horne life. Problems, limitations, and opportunities at the workplace generate behavioral adaptations that extend into the horne, creating the shared lifestyles, childrearing practices, inter-generational education and employment experiences, and common consumption patterns that constitute and reproduce a class.1 These adaptations are forged within a larger social and spatial structure of class segregation (Soja, 1983). The working class performs the direct economic production and low-level service, clerical, and adrninistrative work2 of society and tends to live in "lower class" neighborhoods

When Planning Fails: Protecting the Neighborhood in Vested Development Rights Disputes

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Study of Rental Housing in the City of Los Angeles, 1980 (M013V1)

This dataset contains three samples - Tenant, Landlord and Low Rent Tenant - that survey and analyze the market of rental properties in the city of Los Angeles for the period of 1977 to 1980. Topics cover rent levels, rent increases, vacancy rates, market values, details on condominium conversions, new construction actives, and other elements of the housing market. The Tenant survey has 4094 respondents and 88 variables, the Landlord survey has 621 respondents and 66 variables and the Low Rent Tenants survey has 467 respondents and 174 variables

The Importance of Class

Class can best be understood as emerging from the complex interrelationship of work and horne life. Problems, limitations, and opportunities at the workplace generate behavioral adaptations that extend into the horne, creating the shared lifestyles, childrearing practices, inter-generational education and employment experiences, and common consumption patterns that constitute and reproduce a class.1 These adaptations are forged within a larger social and spatial structure of class segregation (Soja, 1983). The working class performs the direct economic production and low-level service, clerical, and adrninistrative work2 of society and tends to live in "lower class" neighborhoods

Like a fellow traveler of organizers : A conversation with Allan Heskin on multicultural housing organizing

In March 2023, RHJ editors Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia and Mara Ferreri had a long online chat with Allan D. Heskin on his life and committed work linking community advocacy, housing organizing and planning scholarship, as collected in books such as The Struggle for Community (1991). This is an edited, re-ordered version of that conversation. It contains some conversational references to Allan’s work, which may read as gaps in the structure but rather than explaining things in smoothed detail, we invite readers to delve into the rich material Allan has written. We cannot overstate the value of his ethnographic analysis and planning perspectives

The Impact of Rent Control on Tenure Discounts and Residential Mobility

It is widely believed that rent control leads to a decline in the quality of rental housing. This study examines the effect of rent control on the quality of rental housing in New York City. Quality change is linked to the suppression of rent below ...