Title: Chavez Ravine: Community to Controversial Real Estate | KCET
Headings: Chavez Ravine: Community to Controversial Real Estate
Chavez Ravine: Community to Controversial Real Estate
Content: Some resisted, fighting the city's actions in court, but by the summer of 1952 most of Chavez Ravine was abandoned. Then, the political winds shifted. As Dana Cuff explains in her book, "The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism," a coalition led by the Los Angeles Times, private home builders, and a public interest group named Citizens Against Socialist Housing (CASH) played up early-Cold War fears of creeping socialism. Support for the government-run housing project collapsed. Artist's rendering of Elysian Park Heights, the low-income housing development slated to replace the community Chavez Ravine. Courtesy of the Herald-Examiner Collection, Los Angeles Public Library. Artist's rendering of an Elysian Park Heights garden apartment building. Courtesy of the Herald-Examiner Collection, Los Angeles Public Library. The city housing authority sent this letters to residents of Chavez Ravine, informing them that they would soon be displaced.