October 13, 2015

Building Hope with Community: The Right to Affordable Housing in South Central Los Angeles

This week’s blog is a repost from Esperanza Community Housing. The post discusses the right to affordable housing in South Central Los Angeles and preliminary findings from HIP’s HIA on a development in the area. The narrative of South Los Angeles has been one of serial displacement. Community residents, primarily […]
August 14, 2015

Lead Poisoning and Crime: Why the Pipeline to Prison is Running Dry

| By Darío Maciel & Rick Nevin | In my previous post (Does less lead mean less crime?), I wrote about research showing how the rise and decline in environmental lead levels could account for the bulk of crime trends in the US since the 1940s. (In fact, lead exposure […]