Title: Battle of Chavez Ravine - Wikipedia
Headings: Battle of Chavez Ravine
Battle of Chavez Ravine
Contents
History of the community
Acquisition for public housing
Walter O'Malley and the Dodgers
Resistance to development
Resistance to final evictions
Notes
Sources
External links

Content: The new plans were advanced to construct Dodger Stadium on the site, and in 1959, the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department forcefully removed the last residents occupying Chavez Ravine. Contents
1 History of the community
2 Acquisition for public housing
3 Walter O'Malley and the Dodgers
4 Resistance to development
5 Resistance to final evictions
6 Notes
7 Sources
8 External links
History of the community
In the first half of the twentieth century, Chavez Ravine was a largely independent, semi-rural Mexican-American community in the suburbs of Los Angeles. The area was split up into three smaller neighborhoods: La Loma, Palo Verde, and Bishop. By 1951, right before the public housing proposal, Chavez Ravine was home to over 1,800 families. The residents of Chavez Ravine were generally poor and relied on farming for income. Many of the families living in Chavez Ravine by the 1950s moved there because of ethnic housing discrimination within the city of Los Angeles. Due to its reputation as a poor, rural area, the neighborhood of Chavez Ravine was viewed as an example of urban decay. Areas seen as suffering from urban blight were targeted by progressive legislation like the National Housing Act of 1949. Even though these areas were often depicted as poor, for Mexican-Americans during this time, the residents were doing well, with a good number of residents owning their own homes.