Is USC a College with a Conscience? Perspectives From our Neighbors

Is USC a College with a Conscience? Perspectives From our Neighbors

Another look at USC's expansion history and process.

Credits to:
Teresa Cheng,
Simone Andrews

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18371789284&ref=ts

Category:

Education

Tags:

• responsible development
• social equity
• USC
• Los Angeles
• Planning
• Gentrification
• Displacement
• activism

[sonyvaio18]

Raze the entire zip code? Please take a good look at the urban planning literature. Gentrification is not the only answer, nor should it even be considered an answer. Many alternatives exist. Campus and Community partnerships should be examined for responsible development. Universities like Yale, Harvard, and Northeastern have taken first steps in community development approaches and housing advocacy. USC can be a leader in this regard to develop equitably, ecologically, and economically.

[sonyvaio18]

Welfare culture? Filth and scum? I urge you to take a walk around campus and look at the demographics and the hard working families in the area. Despite the few rent controlled properties, the average family spends 70% of their income on rent. Please re-examine your history. Urban disinvestment did not happen out of nowhere, it was promoted by corporations and government policies toward suburban sprawl. Inner cities are now paying the price.

[SoCalStudio]

A fantastic documentary. For those who are reading hate into the filmmakers' points of view--try watching it again with a BRAIN. This is a critical piece that attempts to discuss how such a fantastic university can do this to their neighbors--while making a ton of money at the same time.

[laopendialogue]

I lived for 4 years in this area and went to USC. It is not a shit hole, there are tons of awesome families and good places to eat, neat houses. It's true it has faced a lot of disinvestment, but that's hardly the fault of the residents, and they don't deserve to be displaced for that.

Can't we make the area better for USC AND its neighbors? That's the point of this video. Thanks for making it!

[lyliaargo]

Growing up poor did not make gunplay and gangs ok in my neighborhood, where the fu#* r u from?

[JudyAbominable]

Poverty Pimps like Ekland have had decades to BUY THE LAND they now so jealously covet.

The USC area is totally blighted with rent controlled slums and low-income housing projects - a welfare culture that breeds criminal activity.

Gentrification is the only answer when the government has failed to make the area safe for ordinary citizens, not just the poor who are ok with the gunplay and gangs.

I would hope USC would raze the entire zip code.