segregation is a problem in LA.
Yes even today.
Los Angeles has a long and shameful
history of both legal and later de facto
segregation that has delivered a city where poverty is
racialized and communities of color are
the most impacted by housing scarcity
and in light of how deep that housing
crisis is in LA, the cost of that legacy
for Black and Latinx Angelenos is high
one of the most important tools used to
keep Los Angeles segregated was something
called redlining. Redlining was the
federal government's practice of outlining
entire neighborhoods in red ink on maps. those neighborhoods were largely
Black and Latinx and residents of those
areas were systematically denied
federally-backed mortgages, which are less risky. that
means people of color had to spend even
more money for homes than white people. 
redlining and the practices it allowed lasted
for 30 years in LA, well into the 1960s
but the end of official redlining did not put an end to segregation
wealth disparities
that still favor white Angelenos mean
that Black and Latinx Angelenos are
better able to afford apartments rather
than detached houses. with about half of
the city exclusively zoned for
single-family housing, and strong
opposition from residents of those areas
to building multi-family housing, this
effectively allows segregation to
continue. residents who promote the continuation of these exclusionary
policies and oppose new apartment buldings say
they want to preserve neighborhood
character, a term with racist
connotation in predominately white
neighborhoods with single-family zoning. over generations that lack of wealth
that homeownership facilitates and the
racial wealth gap
have left Black and Latinx individuals
and families at a serious disadvantage
in housing. and the areas where many
have been able to secure housing face
lower access to healthcare, good schools,
healthy food options, and have
higher amounts of air pollution, among
other issues. people of color are also
over-represented among the 60,000 plus unhoused people in LA County
not only is LA still experiencing segregation
but the cost for marginalized
communities is often very
harsh. true housing justice in a livable LA
can only be achieved when we confront
our racist past and center racial
justice in our work in our policy
