Even with Los Angeles in a proximal vantage point growing up, however, I seldom frequented the City of Angels until coming to college at UCLA. I’m a native Californian, born and raised in a small suburb outside of Los Angeles. Hope you enjoy this piece as I navigate through the complexities of homelessness, dispossession, and gentrification in LA.īefore I start, I want to acknowledge the personal impetus that has driven me to this topic selection. All this is to say that homelessness is not an event, but part of an ongoing process of neoliberal capitalism and settler colonialism that has relied on and continues to rely on the displacement and land dispossession of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC). However, in utilizing the aforementioned lens, I hope to elucidate the connections between homelessness affecting Angelenos, the Indigenous dispossession that preceded it, and the complicity of college students in gentrification that contributes to it. Taken in isolation, the homelessness crisis within LA can be seen as an instance of structural violence that disproportionately affects Black and Latinx individuals in the present. As part of a quarter-long project about a “Politics of Our Time,” I’ve decided to apply a comparative and relational race and indigeneity framework to the ongoing homelessness crisis within Los Angeles (LA). I’ve written this piece for my UCLA Asian American Studies course on Comparative Race and Indigeneity.
Homelessness, Dispossession, and Gentrification in Los Angeles Welcome!
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