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Beneath the Ballpark

99% Invisible

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The Second Threat to the Chavez Ravine

In 1949, the federal government passed the National Housing Act. Los Angeles itself was going to be home to 10,000 of these new public housing units. The city selected Chavez Ravine to be the site for 3,600 new units. Eric Avila: From an urban planning perspective, a poor community like the Chavez Ravine fit their idea of what a slum was at the time.

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