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A Note From the Editors
by franknews
September 1, 2021
A note from the editors,
Two years ago, we spent a month looking at our grid system – we came away realizing that while we are deeply dependent on quick, readily accessible energy, very few people had an encompassing understanding of the system, the grid, that provided our energy.
That sense of disconnect is the same with much of the infrastructure that shapes our modern world. We take the ease that roads, damns, and powerlines provide for granted until they are strained or broken.
It’s painfully obvious that climate change is here, that society, as we know it, has changed, and that the infrastructure that maintains our society must change in response.
September looks at the intersection of climate and infrastructure.
-frank
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Homelessness in Los Angeles: A Reading List
by franknews
January 20, 2021
READ: Evicted by Matthew Desmond.
READ: The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein.
LISTEN: Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Pod
READ: An LA TIMES Archives photo series of an effort in 1987 effort to supply short-term housing residents of sidewalk encampments on Skid Row.
SCROLL: An instagram account documenting gentrification and resilience along the East Hollywood/Silver Lake border.
READ: Nithya Ramam’s platform for the housing and homelessness crises.