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Constitutional Law

Mar. 29, 2018

The takings clause of Boyle Heights

Los Angeles residents will remember that in 2016, news agencies reported that anti-gentrification activists in the Latinx neighborhood of Boyle Heights held antic, and sometimes nerve-wracking, protests against art galleries.

Yxta Maya Murray

Professor
Loyola Law School

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The takings clause of Boyle Heights
An art gallery that was vandalized with an obscene message in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, Nov. 4, 2016. (New York Times News Service)

Who owns Boyle Heights?

Los Angeles residents will remember that in 2016, news agencies reported that anti-gentrification activists in the Latinx neighborhood of Boyle Heights held antic, and sometimes nerve-wracking, protests against art galleries. These agitators insisted that art galleries beckon middle-class people, who drive up real estate prices and thus force out longstanding, but poorer, residents.

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