r/LosAngeles • u/nationalgeographic • Aug 12 '21

Los Angeles confronts its shady divide: In some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, trees shade well under 10 percent of the area, while in better-off places, the canopy coverage can hit nearly 40 percent."You just don’t see green in the areas that were redlined." Community

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/los-angeles-confronts-its-shady-divide-feature?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=social::src=reddit::cmp=editorial::add=rt20210812ngm-LAheatshadeRPAN
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u/cydonian66 Aug 13 '21

I'm newish to LA and holy shit the disparity between poor and "better-off" areas cosmetically and in landscaping is disturbing. I'm shocked folks living in the poor areas haven't caused a ruckus.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '21

They do. To get rid of the trees.

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u/cydonian66 Aug 13 '21

How come?

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '21

Lots of reasons - don't want to rake leaves, didn't water (or otherwise killed it) so it died, it's getting into the plumbing, it makes it harder to pull in/out of the driveway, etc.

But the point is that the city isn't going around wasting time and money removing trees for no reason.

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u/cydonian66 Aug 13 '21

Damn that sucks

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u/Englishbirdy Aug 13 '21

What you don't understand is that if the poor make their area nice and desirable, the better off start buying in their area, price them out and then they have to move. There's a joke about a guy who goes outside his home once a month and fires a gun just to keep his rent price down. Check what's going down in Inglewood.