LUPE, OUR BELOVED CURRENT TENANT OF 63 YEARS WAS RECENTLY GIVEN THE EVICTION NOTICE AFTER THE HOUSE WAS RECENTLY SOLD. ANY FINANCIAL SUPPORT YOU HAVE TO OFFER LUPE TO HELP EASE THIS TRANSITION IS INCREDIBLY GENEROUS AND APPRECIATED. 

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PLEASE READ ABOUT THE HISTORY OF HER HOUSE :

1553 EWING STREET IS AN ADDRESS STEEPED IN DEEP HISTORY REPRESENTING THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF ECHO PARK AND IS IN THREAT OF BEING TORN DOWN, REDEVELOPED INTO A BIG APARTMENT BUILDING, WHILE DISPLACING THE RESIDENTS WHO HAVE CALLED THIS HOME FOR THE PAST 60 YEARS.

DISPLACEMENT AND THE IMPACTS OF GENTRIFICATION TAKES US BACK TO 1959 WHEN THE ORIGINAL INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES OF PALO VERDE, LA LOMA AND BISHOP WERE VIOLENTLY FORCED OUT OF THEIR HOMES BY THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES IN THE NAME OF EMINENT DOMAIN.  FAMILIES LIKE THE ARECHIGA FAMILY HAD MANY HOMES IN THE AREA, EACH AT THE TIME ESTIMATED TO BE WORTH OVER $75,000, AND YET THE CITY WAS OFFERING NO MORE THAN $10000 IN COMPENSATION FOR FAMILIES TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES, MOST OF WHICH WERE BUILT BY THE FAMILY THEMSELVES.  THE ARECHIGA FAMILY RESISTED AND WERE EVENTUALLY FORCEFULLY REMOVED AND HAD TO WATCH AS BULLDOZERS DESTROYED THEIR HOMES.  THE CITY ENDED UP DESTROYING THESE HOMES FOR A 17,000 UNIT PUBLIC HOUSING FACILITY THAT NEVER CAME TO FRUITION, EVENTUALLY TURNING THE LAND INTO DODGER STADIUM.  THE ARECHIGA FAMILY MOVED INTO THE 1553 EWING STREET HOUSE IN 1959, WHILE FIGHTING FOR THE NEXT YEARS AGAINST WHAT THE CITY HAD DONE.  IN 1963 IS WHEN THE PADILLA FAMILY MOVED IN, RENTING FROM THE ARECHIGA FAMILY AND LIVING SIDE BY SIDE AS NEIGHBORS, AND WHERE THE PADILLA FAMILY HAVE REMAINED TO THIS DAY.  THE HOUSE IS NOW BEING AUCTIONED AND NOT ONLY WILL THE PADILLA FAMILY LOSE THEIR HOME OF 60 YEARS, BUT WE WILL LOSE A LANDMARK AND COMMUNITY REPRESENTATION THAT HAS MADE THIS NEIGHBORHOOD THE SPECIAL PLACE THAT IT IS.  THE WAY DEVELOPMENT CONTINUES TO PUT PROFITS OVER WELL BEING AND HISTORICAL WORTH IS SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO CHANGE.  

PLEASE HELP TO SAVE THIS PROPERTY AND SIGN THIS PETITION THAT WILL SHOW COMMUNITY SUPPORT IN MAINTAINING THE HOUSE AT 1553 EWING, KEEPING IT’S ORIGINAL OCCUPANTS AND THE REJECTION OF TEARING IT DOWN FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS. 

INFORM YOURSELVES BY GOOGLING - ARECHIGA FAMILY / SB 9 AND SB 10

SB 9 AND SB 10 ARE BILLS THAT GOVERNOR NEWSOM PASSED WHICH ARE ALLOWING DEVELOPMENT INCREASES THAT ARE AFFECTING NEIGHBORHOODS UNDER THE GUISE OF HELPING WITH THE HOUSING CRISIS WHEN IN FACT IT IS JUST ANOTHER WAY FOR DEVELOPERS TO MAKE MONEY AND PERPETUATING THE EFFECTS THAT GENTRIFICATION CAUSES ON THE ORIGINAL COMMUNITY MEMBERS OF ITS NEIGHBORHOOD. 

CALLING ON COMMUNITY SUPPORT

UPDATE - THE HOUSE HAS BEEN APPROVED AS A CULTURAL HISTORICAL LANDMARK.