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Politicians have lined up to oppose a warehouse proposed for an empty lot on Pasadena Avenue in Lincoln Heights. “You’re going to have trailers going in and out of there, all the pollution they’re going to be bringing in, all the additional trash.” Industrial developer Xebec Realty is listed on a city planning form as the company seeking to build …

Ysabel Jurado made a huge splash on Los Angeles’ Eastside last spring, coming in first in the five-way primary election for a City Council seat representing neighborhoods stretching from downtown to Eagle Rock. Since 2020, the year De León took office, the city has opened “tiny-home villages” for unhoused residents in Eagle Rock, Highland Park and Boyle Heights. So has …

Protesters march last week toward USC’s Health Science Campus in Boyle Heights to rally against a proposed research facility that they say will exacerbate gentrification in Eastside neighborhoods. For some Eastside residents and local organizers, a proposed research facility at USC’s Health Sciences Campus in Boyle Heights is the latest example of a decades-long wave of gentrification spurred in part …

Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo, at her family home in Boyle Heights, on Thursday is officially announcing her intention to run for Kevin de León’s City Council seat. Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo walks near “El Corrido de Boyle Heights,” a mural painted in 1983 that was defaced by graffiti. When she ran into Brenda Martinez, a member of the Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council, …

Families wait in line in April at the Mar Vista Family Center for free food and headphones, which students use to screen out noise while studying at home. Los Angeles families with school-age children in Boyle Heights, South Los Angeles and Watts struggled with access to computers and adequate internet throughout the spring semester while facing job losses and food …

As she watched the TV coverage of the FBI arrest of Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar, Isela Gracian felt her heart sink. Zamora, who lives in Boyle Heights, said Huizar’s life story helped spur her to enroll at USC. “At one point,” she said, “he was good.” Restaurant owner Raquel Zamora says of Jose Huizar: “At one point he …

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