SOCI 142gm Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Community Benefits Agreement, Bruce Ratner, Urban Decay
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Low income residents have less power/of a say in the negative aspects of development. Saito and troung - the la live cba: community benefits agreement (cbas), contracts between developers and community coalitions, successfully negotiated in 2001 with a developer. They negotiated for the project before it went through city-approval process: los angeles takes the most of people"s incomes in the country. Cba: living wage jobs, shouldn"t use city subsidizes to contribute to poverty, affordable housing interest -free loans, grants, local hiring, park and recreation facilities. Aeg: city resources and subsidies, eminent domain, hotel bed taxes. Extra taxes charged by the hotel for future renovations. Los angeles union membership and policies and improvements: union membership has the reputation of being just for white men, white, make, citizens racial minorities, women, immigrants, los. Unions and latinos: political force: membership, fundraising, elected officials, 2010 census (for unions and race in los angeles, california, and us) Rise of organizations, post-1992 civil unrest era.
