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Last year, residents of the citys 10th Council District which Bradley represented before becoming mayor rejected Bradley-backed candidate Homer Broome. Di million immigrants over the last 1 decade have been crammed into older black and Chicano areas, forming a dense, continuous ring of slum housing around downtown, with filaments and tentacles reaching out to Hollywood and the eastern San Fernando Valley in the north, the San Gabriel Valley as far as La Puente to the east, and Lynwood in the south. There has been no housing planning or social policy to accommodate this onrush of new low-wage residents. Since 1981 federal housing assistance has been slashed by 70 percent without compensatory support from state or city authorities. Los Angeles has not built a single unit of public housing since the controversies of the McCarthy era, and the existing stock of older rental property is being systematically depleted by redevelopment and condominium conversion.

In the near future, rents for some 60,000 units will rise sharply as federal restrictions expire on subsidized housing and as other private apartment owners pass on to tenants the costs of upgrading to earthquake safety standards. The cheapest family units in the city, in the most dilapidated neighborhoods, now cost about 70 percent of the income of a minimum-wage worker. Meanwhile, commercial redevelopment threatens affordable housing in the congested neighborhoods of the inner-city ring. Asian capital is gambling on the highrise future of the West Bank of the Harbor Freeway (all the way to MacArthur Park) as a second Bunker Hill. On the razed hillsides of Temple-Beaudry, former tenement' dwellers have returned as clandestine squatters while thousands of Central American families are in the line of the next wave of Central City West expansion down Wilshire and across Crown Hill.

Immediately south of downtown, USC is manuevering to dominate another axis of redevelopment, with speculation suggesting a skyscraper corridor along Figueroa to Jefferson. Thousands of Hollywood residents also face relocation thanks to CRA plans, and myriad mini-probes of gentri-fication can be seen in the hillsides of Ely-sian Park and East L.A. Amid such an acute crisis of affordable housing, the labor-market division of the L.A. working class into privileged and oppressed strata is redoubled by these relations of mass homelessness and mass landlordism. Some see the specter of a creeping Brazilianization of the citys social structure: What kind of city will Los Angeles be in the year 2000 if we fail to provide needed housing? A city of gated communities and wandering groups of homeless, like the millions of street children in Brazil? Thus, the worst fears of the previous generation about the consequences of market-driven overdevelopment in the Los Angeles Basin are coming true.

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