Share the Wealth Campaign

For the past three years, downtown Los Angeles has been in the process of undergoing monumental change and redevelopment due to increased private investment and the establishment of two redevelopment areas by the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles (CRA). Economic development is working in tandem throughout the community, but largely targeting new, high-income consumers. New residents and businesses are pressuring the city to alleviate homelessness in the area, which has resulted in increased harassment and criminalization of homeless people without any new resources for shelter or housing.

Share the Wealth (STW) is a strategic alliance between three community partners who have been engaged in successful grassroots activism against the gentrification of downtown Los Angeles for almost three years: Los Angeles Community Action Network, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, and Strategic Actions for a Just Economy. Share the Wealth has an additional 50 organizational supporters and over 500 resident supporters. Our platform is based on the following principles:

1. Preventing displacement;
2. Increasing affordable housing for very low and extremely low income residents;
3. Promoting local hiring and job training;
4. Building wealth and assets;
5. Increasing park space; and
6. Building indigenous leadership.

Downloads

Click here to view and download our STW Policy Paper (360KB, pdf format*)
Click here to view and download our STW Chart (25KB, pdf format*)
Click here to view and download our STW Brochure (67KB, pdf format*)
Click here to view "What do you mean by affordable housing"?

Legal Clinic/Tenant Rights Work

The key to preventing the gentrification of downtown Los Angeles is to prevent the mass displacement of current low-income residents, and it is a core principle of Share the Wealth. LA CAN educates and organizes thousands of low-income tenants to ensure that tenant rights are not violated, as they have been for decades in the downtown residential hotels. We also conduct a weekly legal clinic, in partnership with UCLA School of Law, on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. at 456 S. Main Street.

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