Op-Ed: My South L.A. home is for sale on Zillow. But I'm not sure I'm ready to leave

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Op-Ed: My South L.A. home is for sale on Zillow. But I'm not sure I'm ready to leave (via latimesopinion)

My home — a little 1920s bungalow in South Los Angeles off Slauson Avenue — is for sale. In the mornings, I check my email and Zillow reminds me that something I cherish is being offered up to strangers.

It’s a seller’s market right now. Housing prices are at an all-time high, but experts are predicting another housing crash is just around the corner“We’re not even going to consider it if we get offers less than $950,000 to a million,” Marcus said. I saw the dollar signs flashing in his eyes and I understood. He grew up city-poor and I grew up rural-poor .

Now, when I look at our house listing, I feel like the investors she detested. That woman loved that we were a Black family moving into what has long been a working-class Black neighborhood, one where I can still enjoy vestiges of the Black Louisianans who migrated to the area during the Great Migration. . It backs up to an alley that backs up to a stretch of Slauson peppered with old storefronts — some boarded up and graffitied.

 

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opinion house is very nice but isnt south LA dangerous with alot of gang activity? not bein ignorant just need info

opinion If I don’t know who the writer is, this click-bait headline won’t make me click it.

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