Los Angeles, You're Next

There Goes the Neighborhood

WNYC Studios and KCRW

History, City, Nyc, The, Nation, Documentary, News, Brooklyn, Gentrification, York, Boroughs, Real, Race, New, Estate, Society & Culture, Business News, Wnyc

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2017

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Season 2 will dig into how Los Angeles has gone from being the place to chase your dreams to the least affordable city in the country. Housing prices are soaring, developers and landlords see opportunity, and many longtime Angelenos are getting squeezed out. In this episode, meet some of the characters you'll hear about in the upcoming series. Season 2 is produced by KCRW and WNYC Studios and is hosted by KCRW's Saul Gonzalez. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

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0:00.0	Do you live here in Echo Park?
0:04.0	Yeah, I was born in Racist.
0:05.1	You're born here.
0:05.8	What do you think about it?
0:07.2	What do I think about Echo Park?
0:08.3	Yeah, what I think about?
0:10.6	Genification sucks.
0:13.4	This is Matthew.
0:15.4	He's talking with Saul Gonzalez from KCRW in Los Angeles.
0:19.6	Earlier this summer, Saul was showing me around Echo Park, explaining how the neighborhood
0:23.3	has changed in recent years.
0:25.5	Matthew overheard us, and he wanted to chime in.
0:28.6	At first, he seemed pretty clear.
0:30.8	Gentrification sucks.
0:32.3	But he's 24, and he's got to admit he likes press juices and hip bars as much as the next kid.
0:39.5	What do you think about the new Echo Park? What do you think about the Lassons and the $3.50
0:44.7	coffee place down the street and all the white people, frankly.
0:49.6	A lot of pretty girls out here. So I think it's a double-edged sword.
0:55.1	As with many things in life, man.
0:56.8	Yeah, yeah.
0:58.1	The neighborhood's part of a corridor of gentrification that runs through L.A.'s east side,
1:03.1	from Echo Park through Highland Park. It's sort of hipster heaven. This, as Saul says, is the new
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