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欠如（する） of affordable 住宅 in Los Angeles' Venice Beach 近隣奮起させるs activism and art

Published: 04:08 BST, 4 November 2023 | Updated: 04:09 BST, 4 November 2023

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - As more and more of her friends and neighbors 設立する themselves 定価つきの out of 賃貸しの部隊s in Venice Beach, Judy Branfman began photographing the dozens of houses, bungalows and apartments 存在 sold, renovated and then relisted at 二塁打 or ３倍になる the cost.

Branfman started with only the vague idea that she should be 文書ing the growing problem of evictions and 住宅 unaffordability in her beloved west Los Angeles 近隣. The writer and 行動主義者 lamented that Venice, where tourists flock to the famous boardwalk and Muscle Beach, has been slowly shedding its 歴史的に bohemian vibe and becoming another 飛び領土 for the 豊富な.

Word spread about her photo 事業／計画（する） and earlier this year Branfman started hosting community 会合s where 居住（者）s could 株 their experiences with evictions that 軍隊d them to move out of the area and, in some 事例／患者s, into homelessness. Some people recited poems. Others 表明するd themselves through 絵s. And the more academically-minded の中で them began 収集するing 住宅 and eviction 統計（学）.

Branfman's 初期の notion to just shoot a few photos has 最高潮に達するd in an ありそうもない but ambitious art-会合，会うs-data 展示（する）肩書を与えるd "Where Has All The (affordable) 住宅 Gone?" It's on 陳列する，発揮する through Saturday at Venice's venerable Beyond Baroque gallery, a 中心 for cultural events and activism dating 支援する to the late 1960s.

"The idea was to illustrate the problem, to show what we've lost. You know, make it visual so people would walk in and be a little shocked, and want to do something about it," Branfman said at the gallery this week.

Venice became a 中心 of the Los Angeles homelessness 危機 during the coronavirus pandemic, when （軍の）野営地，陣営s sprouted up in 居住の近隣s and along the sands. The nation� �s second-largest city also has 46,000 居住（者）s who are homeless の中で the 全体にわたる全住民 of 4 million people, によれば the most 最近の調査する.

Writer and 行動主義者 Judy Branfman stands by a 地図／計画する she created as part of a gallery 取り付け・設備 at Beyond Baroque gallery, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023, in the Venice Beach area of Los Angeles. The gallery 取り付け・設備申し込む／申し出s a unique art-会合，会うs-data look at the eviction 危機 in the Venice Beach 近隣. The 展示（する）肩書を与えるd "Where Has All The (affordable) 住宅 Gone?" gathers 地図／計画するs, photos, 統計（学）, 絵s, poems and the stories of people who have been 立ち退かせるd from their homes, 含むing the artist behind the 事業／計画（する）. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

The area was a flashpoint because of its visibility as a city 目印 - the boardwalk attracts an 概算の 10 million 訪問者s per year. A 確かな edginess always coexisted with a live-and-let-live ethos in the artsy beach community, but the 広げるing of the wealth gap has become ますます明らかな as tech 会社／堅いs moved in and sleek modern homes went up.

As building owners 捜し出す to bring in more 深い-pocketed renters, longtime 居住（者）s find themselves 取引，協定ing with rent 増加するs that 圧倒する their 財政／金融s. Some 80% of low-income Los Angeles renters 支払う／賃金 over half their income toward 住宅 costs, によれば data 解放（する）d this week by the nonprofit Angeleno 事業／計画（する）.

While Los Angeles is on 跡をつける to 会合，会う確かな goals for new 住宅始める，決める out by 最近の投票（する）対策, "供給（する） is 厳しく behind 需要・要求する," the 報告（する）／憶測設立する.

"Some 3,500 住宅部隊s are at high or very high 危険 of losing their affordability 条件, 脅すing to 押し進める more families into homelessness," said the 報告（する）／憶測. "A 重要な下落する in affordable 住宅 that started in 2022 地位，任命する-COVID-19 continues to 傾向 downward."

Upon entering Branfman's 展示（する）, 訪問者s are 直面するd by her photos on an enormous and 詳細（に述べる）d 地図／計画する描写するing, 封鎖する by 封鎖する, many of the nearly 1,500 rent-controlled 部隊s she says have di sappeared from the 住宅 market in Venice over two １０年間s. In many instances, the buildings were sold to large 会社／団体s that are ますます buying up 所有物／資産／財産s and jacking up rents.

The 地図／計画する, and much of the 展示（する）, pins some of the 非難する for the problem on the Ellis 行為／法令／行動する, a 1985 California 法律 that gave landlords 幅の広い当局 to 立ち退かせる tenants in rent-controlled buildings for redevelopment, and then later 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） the same 部隊s at market 率s. Branfman said she was "Ellis 行為／法令／行動するd" when she was 立ち退かせるd from a Venice apartment in 2003.

"Too many tenants are afraid to fight 支援する. And most don't know what their 権利s are under the 法律," she said. And even when tenants do とじ込み／提出する（民事の）告訴s against landlords, she said, the city very rarely 起訴するs the （人命などを）奪う，主張するs.

On the 塀で囲む opposite the 地図／計画する is a 解放する／自由な-詩（を作る） poem made up of 引用するs about why many renters are were afraid to take on landlords, such as: "I don't want any trouble" and "My neighbors aren't 文書d and they're afraid if they say anything they'll be 的d."

Upstairs there are 絵s and mixed-マスコミ figurines that the artist Sumaya Evans calls "dignity dolls." Evans, who was homeless in Venice for years before recently finding 住宅, said creating art gave her a sense of self-価値（がある） when she was living on the streets.

"You get used to 存在 ignored as a homeless woman. People are blind to you when you're outside," she said. "And so 存在 a part of of a 事業／計画（する） like this, 存在 a part of a community, is just so 傷をいやす／和解させるing."

Branfman and other 住宅行動主義者s are 希望に満ちた that change could come with 手段 that's qualified for the 2024 投票（する）. The 率先 that will go before 投票者s would 拡大する地元の支配（する）／統制する by overturning a 28-year-old 法律 that 禁じるs rent 支配（する）／統制する on 選び出す／独身-family homes, condos and 賃貸しの部隊s that were built after 1995.

After the 展示（する）の近くにs Saturday, Branfman hopes to find a home for some of the 取り付け・設備s at a library or university. Most of it will live 事実上 on its own Instagram page.

"The 残り／休憩（する） of it will be on 陳列する，発揮する in my apartment," she laughs.

A の近くに-up of a 地図／計画する part of an 取り付け・設備 for an 展示（する）肩書を与えるd "Where Has All The (affo rdable) 住宅 Gone is seen at the Beyond Baroque gallery, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023, in the Venice Beach area of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles gallery 取り付け・設備申し込む／申し出s a unique art-会合，会うs-data look at the eviction 危機 in the Venice Beach 近隣. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Artist Sumaya Evans sits with her 取り付け・設備 "dignity dolls." part of an 展示（する）肩書を与えるd "Where Has All The (affordable) 住宅 Gone?" at the Beyond Baroque gallery, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023, in the Venice Beach area of Los Angeles. Evans, who was homeless in Venice for years before recently finding 住宅, said creating art gave her a sense of self-価値（がある） when she was living on the streets. "You get used to 存在 ignored as a homeless woman. People are blind to you when you're outside," she said. "And so 存在 a part of a 事業／計画（する） like this, 存在 a part of a community, is just so 傷をいやす／和解させるing." (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Artist Sumaya Evans 会談 about her 取り付け・設備 "dignity dolls." part of an 展示（する）肩書を与えるd "Where Has All The (affordable) 住宅 Gone?" at the Beyond Baroque gallery, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023, in the Venice Beach area of Los Angeles. Evans, who was homeless in Venice for years before recently finding 住宅, said creating art gave her a sense of self-価値（がある） when she was living on the streets. "You get used to 存在 ignored as a homeless woman. People are blind to you when you're outside," she said. "And so 存在 a part of a 事業／計画（する） like this, 存在 a part of a community, is just so 傷をいやす／和解させるing." (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Artist Sumaya Evans, 権利, gives a kiss to writer and 行動主義者 Judy Branfman in the 入り口 to Beyond Baroque gallery by a 地図／計画する she created as part of an 展示（する）肩書を与えるd "Where Has All The (affordable) 住宅 Gone?" on Friday, Nov. 3, 2023, in the Venice Beach area of Los Angeles. Word spread about her photo 事業／計画（する） and Branfman started hosting community 会合s where 居住（者）s could 株 their experiences with evictions that 軍隊d them to move out of the area and, in some 事例／患者s, into homelessness. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)