Does gentrification come with safer roads in West Adams?

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Yolanda Davis-Overstreet, a community organizer and mobility justice advocate, points to a crosswalk on West Adams Boulevard that she helped bring to the neighborhood through the City of LA’s Vision Zero.

Yolanda Davis-Overstreet, a community organizer and mobility justice advocate, points to a crosswalk on West Adams Boulevard that she helped bring to the neighborhood through the City of LA’s Vision Zero. Photo by Megan Jamerson.

As LA makes safety improvements during rapid neighborhood development south of the 10 freeway, locals ask why now, and who are these changes meant to benefit?

LAUSD is seeing a drop in COVID numbers and rise in attendance. KCRW checks in with third grade teacher Kristie Collette and high school teacher Aviva Alvarez-Zakson.

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Credits

Host:

Steve Chiotakis

Producers:

Christian Bordal, Jenna Kagel, Kathryn Barnes