Advertorial – ‘See To, Not Through’ – A Love Letter to South L.A.
November 20, 2024
What homeownership looks like today is a 40-80 hour work week and scarcely making enough to survive, not live.
Breaking News
- Palm Springs Approves $27 Million Reparations Deal for Displaced Black and Latino Families
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- L.A. County Commission on HIV’s Black Caucus Hosts World AIDS Day at CDU
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- Judge Dion Griffith Morrow Passes Away
- Election Controversy Sparks Debate in Pasadena NAACP Leadership Race
- James Lee and his Mobile Station Celebrate 50 Years Serving in the Community
- Mulenga Strengthens Bonds Between Los Angeles and Lusaka through Sister City Committee
- Maggie Hathaway Golf Course Renewal Project Breaks Ground
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- Davis Honored with Advocacy Award at State NAACP Conference
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- A New Vision – Brandon Lamar’s Bid for NAACP Pasadena President
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- Groundbreaking Reporter Warren Wilson Passes Away
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- Eric Benét Headlines KJLH Stage at Taste of Soul
- Jim McDonnell Named Next Chief of Los Angeles Police Department
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- Seventh Annual United Against Hate Week Launches from Watts
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- Attorney Fani Willis Addresses L.A. Community Members Supporting Her Race In Georgia
- Marqueece Harris-Dawson Elected as L.A. City Council President
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- Black Caucus Members Weigh Next Steps for Reparations in California
- Celebrating Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson at The Ebell of LA
- Black Community Unites to Re-Elect L.A. Mayor Karen Bass
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- Mayor Warren and the Impact of Local Officials
- A Conversation with ‘Gladiator II’ Star Alexander Karim
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affordable housing
California YIMBY Aims to Make it Legal to Build More Homes
August 21, 2024
While tens of thousands of Californians live in subsidized affordable housing, there is not nearly enough to satisfy demand.
Working Group: More Entry-Level Homes Could Help Solve Housing Crisis
May 1, 2024
The Community Housing Working Group hosted a briefing on April 23 at Cafeteria 15L in Sacramento. Discussions focused on how the housing crisis in California affects Black and Brown communities and explored ways to provide low-income families and individuals with affordable housing.
Bakewell Media and L.A. Sentinel Honor Yvonne Wheeler, President of L.A. County Federation of Labor
March 13, 2024
Yvonne Wheeler, the first Black woman president of the L.A. County Federation of Labor, will be honored by Bakewell Media and the L.A. Sentinel at the “Power, Leadership and Influence of the Black Woman” event on Saturday, April 1.3
Political Playback: News You Might Have Missed – Sept. 21
September 21, 2023
On Saturday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that the state is suing five of the world’s largest oil companies and their subsidiaries
Mayor Bass Updates Declaration of Emergency on Homelessness
July 10, 2023
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass signed an updated declaration of a state of emergency on homelessness on Monday, July 10, to further expedite affordable housing and bring unhoused Angelenos inside.
42-Unit Affordable Housing Building Opens in Inglewood
May 4, 2023
On April 25, the City of Inglewood welcomed Beach Terrace, a brand new 42-unit affordable housing building on Beach Ave in Inglewood. Thomas Safran and Associates, lead developer in affordable housing hosted an open house for community members to view the new building.
Saki Middleton – the Real Estate Developer Who Hopes to Build a Better Future
October 6, 2022
Saki Middleton, president of John Stanley, a real estate development, and investment management company, named the business in honor of his father, who sadly passed away while Middleton was in still in college.
WEDC’s Casa de Rosas Opens Doors for Veterans Again and Again
July 28, 2022
Casa de Rosas, the expansive, new housing community led by Ward Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), held its third open house for Los Angeles veterans seeking long-term affordable housing on Thursday, July 21 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.
Located at 2600 Hoover Street, the 36-unit property is tucked between the Adams-Normandie and Historic South Central neighborhoods, just down the street from USC and Exposition Park.
Heritage Square South Breaks Ground in Pasadena
July 21, 2022
The City of Pasadena and BRIDGE Housing celebrated the groundbreaking of Heritage Square South at N. Fair Oaks Avenue near Orange Grove Boulevard on July 6.
Powerful, Diverse Coalition Supports Karen Bass for Mayor of Los Angeles
July 7, 2022
The latest polls show Congresswoman Karen Bass as the leading candidate for mayor of Los Angeles, yet some people still wonder who is supporting her. Based on the audience at her July 5 press conference, her backers are a large and powerful diverse coalition.
Ensure Construction Opportunities for Minority Contractors
May 12, 2022
While the severe lack of affordable and accessible housing has hurt Californians across the board, communities of color have been the most impacted. Black and Latino households are rent burdened at much higher rates than white households, and own their homes at more than 20% lower rates than Whites. In many cases, the systemic racial inequities that have contributed to these trends– including historic housing and banking discrimination, and pay inequality–have also prevented diverse business owners from being able to secure construction, design, engineering and other contracts to build affordable housing. Even as California deploys an unprecedented amount of money into housing development to
Black America deserves its fair share of the American Dream: Affordable rentals shrinking, growing mortgage denials block homeownership
April 28, 2022
Despite unprecedented federal housing assistance during the pandemic, a report by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) finds stark racial and income divides in its analysis of the nation’s rental market. Nearly a quarter of Black renters were behind on rent in the third quarter of 2021, as well as 19% of Hispanic renters. By contrast, the share of white renters in arrears was half that: 9%.
‘Masks Are Coming Off, But the CA Housing Industry Remains Unstable’ – IERC Provides Housing Counseling to Keep You In Your Home
March 23, 2022
Millions of California homeowners face foreclosure, eviction, and never being able to afford to buy their own home.
Ground Broken on Affordable Housing Apartment Complex in Long Beach
November 1, 2021
Ground was officially broken today on an affordable- housing apartment complex in Long Beach’s Cambodia Town neighborhood.