slum clearance

Palm Springs faces a $2-billion reparations claim from Black and Latino families who were burned out of their homes 50 years ago during “slum clearance.”

Palm Springs faces a $2-billion reparations claim from Black and Latino families who were burned out of their homes 50 years ago during “slum clearance.”

In the slum clearance programme after World War Two, her grandparents were relocated to Essex, along with thousands of other people living in dilapidated two-up, two-down Victorian houses who moved out of the capital.

The affluent and coiffed Palm Springs faces a $2-billion reparations claim from Black and Latino families who were burned out of their homes 50 years ago during the city’s “slum clearance” to build a fantasy for rich white people.

That changing landscape and the dwindling opportunities therein, whether euphemized as “luxury development,” “slum clearance” or “vintage micro-units,” served as a catalyst for filmmaker A.V.