West Hollywood vs East Hollywood (Los Angeles, Orange: low income, apartments, rental)

[mrxalleycat]

West Hollywood vs East Hollywood

Why is East Hollywood so poor, ghetto filled with graffiti than West Hollywood?

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Originally Posted by mrxalleycat

West Hollywood vs East Hollywood

Why is East Hollywood so poor, ghetto filled with graffiti than West Hollywood?

Why didn't my grandmother have testicles so I could call her grandpa?

[jacktravern]

Lower rents; lower housing cost, lighter rental standards.......

[Astral_Weeks]

Originally Posted by mrxalleycat

West Hollywood vs East Hollywood

Why is East Hollywood so poor, ghetto filled with graffiti than West Hollywood?

West Hollywood is an incorporated city of about 35,000 or so people. Known as a center of the "creative industries" the city has always attracted a wide array of creative people and businesses in the film/tv/music business. WeHo is home to the Pacific Design Center and the Sunset Strip which includes marque hotels, clubs and entertainment venues.

It also doesn't hurt that WeHo abuts Beverly Hills to the west and to the north the Hollywood Hills with its mansions to the rich and famous.

East Hollywood is par of "Hollywood" which is a district or neighborhood in the City of Los Angeles. East Hollywood has always tended to be more blue collar, working class, etc. The housing stock there reflects this.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ea...4d-118.2935891


"Hollywood" which encompasses East Hollywood but NOT West Hollywood is a larger area and includes areas which have been gentrifying for the last 15 to 20 years. But it is still not as polished as WeHo and hasn't been since about 1960 or so.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ho...4d-118.3286614

[saybanana]

it is all socioeconomic. like every city in America.
People live where they can afford and gravitate towards those areas with lots of gray areas in between for those in the middle incomes.
Places like Westlake, Koreatown, east Hollywood, Hollywood were once nice, middle class areas when they were first built. They had the newest homes, newest streets, nice streetscape, great shopping, trendy places. This middle class and up kept moving west everytime a new neighborhood is built and the oldest areas were abandoned for poorer classes, people of color, and immigrants. You can call it "white flight" . Then middle class and up moved to the suburbs of the San Fernando Valley, Orange County, San Gabriel Valley and far distances. The upper classes were seculded in their neighborhoods with mansions, large land lots, and almost no renters.
Westlake, Koreatown, east Hollywood, Hollywood became "ghetto" with high crime, high residents with low income, low education, homeless, drug users, etc.
If LA Metro had endless amounts of land to built, places like West Hollywood would have become like Hollywood and West Hollywood, but literally no land left to build. So people stayed put. housing prices went up, people couldnt afford it due to rising rents, rent control went into effect in places like Santa Monica, West Hollywood, LA City. West Hollywood gentrified faster due to proximity to nicer areas like Hancock PArk, Mid City, Beverly Hills, Hollywood Hills. Also helped that West Hollywood became very trendy in the 80s-90s with the Sunset Strip and gay district.
By the late 90s, 2000s, Hollywood was getting this gentrification that continues on today. It used to be the northwestern end of Hollywoodwith the Loews Hotel, shopping mall, Oscars Theater, all the hotels and new apartments. Then W Hotel in northeastern Hollywood and other hotels, new housing, hotels, nightlife. Now it crossed south of Sunset in the past couple years and southwestern Hollywood near LA Brea with lots of new housing. Just southeastern areas have little gentrification.

East Hollywood hasn't seen a lot of gentrification yet. Only along Hollywood Blvd closer to Hollywood or near los Feliz is seeing new construction, hip places to eat. Now around Sunset /Western Ave with the Target there and a proposed mega housing development. I think a lot has to do with Metro subway that runs under Hollywood Blvd versus down on sunset or Santa Monica Blvd is why a lot got built.

I think it will take a really long time for EAst Hollywood to fully be like West Hollywood today.
why? There is just too many places gentrifying in the LA Metro area at once. Places like Downtown, Koreatown, Hollywood, West Hollywood, North Hollywood arts District, are building lots of new offices, and residential buildings and attracting lots of new affluent people, trendy restaurants, bars, grocery stores, shops, etc. Places like Echo Park, Highland Park, Atwater Village, silverLake, Venice are not building a lot but rather just replacing or buying up housing at high prices slowly gentrifying the area and filling up with lots of hipsters and yuppies.
So East Hollywood will need to wait until gentification of Koreatown, Hollywood Los Feliz, Silver Lake spills over with people looking at it as desirable. The Hollywood Blvd area is slowly going there first and sunset/Western willbe like that in a few years, but the other areas will be at least a decade or more. But because there are so many places happening at once it is harder to be started or go from zero to 100% gentrification in a short timeline.

[NeonHippy]

Originally Posted by saybanana

it is all socioeconomic. like every city in America.
People live where they can afford and gravitate towards those areas with lots of gray areas in between for those in the middle incomes.
Places like Westlake, Koreatown, east Hollywood, Hollywood were once nice, middle class areas when they were first built. They had the newest homes, newest streets, nice streetscape, great shopping, trendy places. This middle class and up kept moving west everytime a new neighborhood is built and the oldest areas were abandoned for poorer classes, people of color, and immigrants. You can call it "white flight" . Then middle class and up moved to the suburbs of the San Fernando Valley, Orange County, San Gabriel Valley and far distances. The upper classes were seculded in their neighborhoods with mansions, large land lots, and almost no renters.
Westlake, Koreatown, east Hollywood, Hollywood became "ghetto" with high crime, high residents with low income, low education, homeless, drug users, etc.
If LA Metro had endless amounts of land to built, places like West Hollywood would have become like Hollywood and West Hollywood, but literally no land left to build. So people stayed put. housing prices went up, people couldnt afford it due to rising rents, rent control went into effect in places like Santa Monica, West Hollywood, LA City. West Hollywood gentrified faster due to proximity to nicer areas like Hancock PArk, Mid City, Beverly Hills, Hollywood Hills. Also helped that West Hollywood became very trendy in the 80s-90s with the Sunset Strip and gay district.
By the late 90s, 2000s, Hollywood was getting this gentrification that continues on today. It used to be the northwestern end of Hollywoodwith the Loews Hotel, shopping mall, Oscars Theater, all the hotels and new apartments. Then W Hotel in northeastern Hollywood and other hotels, new housing, hotels, nightlife. Now it crossed south of Sunset in the past couple years and southwestern Hollywood near LA Brea with lots of new housing. Just southeastern areas have little gentrification.

East Hollywood hasn't seen a lot of gentrification yet. Only along Hollywood Blvd closer to Hollywood or near los Feliz is seeing new construction, hip places to eat. Now around Sunset /Western Ave with the Target there and a proposed mega housing development. I think a lot has to do with Metro subway that runs under Hollywood Blvd versus down on sunset or Santa Monica Blvd is why a lot got built.

I think it will take a really long time for EAst Hollywood to fully be like West Hollywood today.
why? There is just too many places gentrifying in the LA Metro area at once. Places like Downtown, Koreatown, Hollywood, West Hollywood, North Hollywood arts District, are building lots of new offices, and residential buildings and attracting lots of new affluent people, trendy restaurants, bars, grocery stores, shops, etc. Places like Echo Park, Highland Park, Atwater Village, silverLake, Venice are not building a lot but rather just replacing or buying up housing at high prices slowly gentrifying the area and filling up with lots of hipsters and yuppies.
So East Hollywood will need to wait until gentification of Koreatown, Hollywood Los Feliz, Silver Lake spills over with people looking at it as desirable. The Hollywood Blvd area is slowly going there first and sunset/Western willbe like that in a few years, but the other areas will be at least a decade or more. But because there are so many places happening at once it is harder to be started or go from zero to 100% gentrification in a short timeline.

Very interesting - this helps me a lot with my new screenplay, which is set in Los Angeles. My fiance is a construction worker - he should have no problems finding work out there when we relocate to the area.

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Originally Posted by NeonHippy

Very interesting - this helps me a lot with my new screenplay, which is set in Los Angeles. My fiance is a construction worker - he should have no problems finding work out there when we relocate to the area.

Your boyfriend will be competing with the illegal alien that is use to making $10 for a 12 hour work day.
Being bilingual is mandatory in that industry to so brush up on that before getting here.

[Kaphawoman]

Originally Posted by NeonHippy

Very interesting - this helps me a lot with my new screenplay, which is set in Los Angeles. My fiance is a construction worker - he should have no problems finding work out there when we relocate to the area.

Construction work is mostly non-union in LA. Wages for the industry have actually declined over the decades due to the influx of cheap Mexican labor.

[NJ Brazen_3133]

East Hollywood is considered what though?

Is it just eastern half of Hollywood Blvd all the down to Chinatown? If so, that areas is not that bad. Silver Lakes is located there.

[pwright1]

Originally Posted by mrxalleycat

West Hollywood vs East Hollywood

Why is East Hollywood so poor, ghetto filled with graffiti than West Hollywood?

Where on earth did you get this info from? Poor and ghetto? East Hollywood is not poor and ghetto.