The Santa Monica City Council will reportedly offer affordable housing to Black families forced out during freeway construction and other urban renewal projects of the 1950s.
Some 600 families lost their homes when the 10 Freeway was built through the Pico neighborhood, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Affordable housing will also be available for families removed when they city bulldozed another Black area, Belmar Triangle, to build the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium."We will be able to right a historic wrong," Santa Monica City Councilwoman Kristin McCowan told the Times."Eventually, we're going to do that for more and more people. And if other communities start to do their share, you can see a real tidal wave potentially across the country.
Santa Monica's act of civic penance is an attempt to recognize the harm done to largely Black communities during the post-World War II era of freeway building and urban renewal, the Times said. Nichelle Monroe, whose grandparents were forced out of the Pico neighborhood, told the Times that she has mixed feelings about the new housing program and the city's other recent efforts to recognize Black history. Monroe believes the city should be making it easier for her family to actually buy a home in the community.
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