South Central LA Housing Issue
SOC 3300-01 Social Issues in the Urban Context
The Environmental Health routine and complaint inspection provides data for hotels/motels and Multi-Family Dwellings with 5 or more units in Los Angeles County. The routine inspections are what’s enforced annually by the District Surveillance and Enforcement (DSE), to ensure that residential housing within Los Angeles County is safe, sanitary, and fit for human habitation. South Central LA has proven to be an area of compromised human rights due to housing inequalities.
Hotspots indicate that in both 2018 and 2019 all areas of South Central were encompassed within the areas where complaints were made but very few parts of South Central were among the hotspots of yearly scheduled routine inspections. The green indicates the South Central LA boundaries.
Areas like South Park and Vermont Slauson begin to get more coverage in routine inspections, and therefore a decrease in complaints.
The housing discrepancies among various areas within South Central could be due to a variety of factors like income levels, population demographics, and education attainment
Marginalized groups risk being victims to these discriminations because landlords often neglect residents knowing that there will be little consequences from public health enforcements.
The LA Times Neighborhood Education Attainment layer identifies in blue the graduate or professional degree while the red tone represents those who have a GED or less.
It seems as though the lack of higher education has caused a rippling effect of negative consequences within the lives of South Central residents. While struggling to attain stable income due to having less credentials, these individuals are pushed into lower class neighborhoods with inadequate living conditions
By doing a side by side comparison of blue and white collar jobs it is evident that white collar jobs are primarily located outside of South Central LA. Less white collar jobs results in less income and therefore more displacement.
The population demographics reveals that white populations are generally outside of South Central while both Hispanic and African American populations are much more concentrated in South Central. People of color are the populations being displaced and affected by the housing inequalities.
