Gentrification--it's not just displacing Black folks anymore
Low-Cost Housing Threatened by Gentrification
Culver City wants to replace two mobile home parks, possibly with townhomes.
By Bob Pool
Times Staff Writer
January 22, 2005
They're going toe-to-toe to keep from getting towed.
Mobile home residents in Culver City are fighting an effort by the city to replace their park with nicer housing, a neighborhood renewal project they say their community doesn't need.
City officials have labeled two Grand View Boulevard mobile home parks "blighted" and picked a private developer to draw up plans to replace the parks' 43 coaches, possibly with townhouses.
But residents contend that their trailer parks are well-maintained and provide badly needed affordable Westside housing for senior citizens and others with low incomes.
The proposed revitalization project marks a major extension of a 33-year city campaign that has transformed many parts of Culver City from one of the few affordable areas of the Westside into a more gentrified, upscale community.
About 42% of the city is included in its redevelopment zone. But in the past, officials have concentrated on sprucing up the city's downtown core, building a new City Hall, new public parking structures and a 12-screen movie theater-restaurant-office complex.
