Aliso village housing projects

Aliso Village was a housing project in Los Angeles, California. It was built in in 1942 and demolished 1999. The 29-acre parcel was replaced by Pueblo del Sol.

The complex was owned and managed by the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles.

Location
Boyle Heights
Los Angeles California
1st Mission Road

Aliso Village Projects
Was one of the most impoverished areas of the city, and by the 1930s was considered one of the last remaining slums in the United States. Reformer Jacob Riis had visited The Flats in the early 1910s and declared them worse than anything in New York; a survey conducted by the city in the 1937 deemed 20% of the city's dwellings "unfit for human habitation," including most of The Flats. During World War II, the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) razed The Flats and built Aliso Village projects in their place. Like most of HACLA's 1940s projects, Aliso Village were hailed at the time of their construction as some of the finest examples of the principles espoused by the garden city movement, and were racially integrated to boot.

Soon after the end the war, Aliso Village lost most of their non-Latino populations, and were increasingly populated by Mexican immigrants. With the river on one side and a massive rail yard on another, the construction of the East Los Angeles Interchange further isolated them from the rest of the city, and the closure of the Pacific Electric Railway dramatically reduced the mobility of many of the projects' residents. By the 1970s, overcrowding had eliminated much of Aliso Village's once-vaunted green spaces, physical deterioration had become rampant, and gangs were an increasing problem. In the 1980s the residents of Aliso Village began to organize with the support of Dolores Mission Church and its community Organization UNO and began to address these problems. By the late eighties the residents of the two housing projects had developed a network of community groups that pushed for better services and began negotiating truces between the different gangs, thus reducing the level of violence. In 1996, HACLA wrote off the projects, against the residents desires; Aliso Village was demolished and replaced with the New Urbanist, Pueblo del Sol "workforce housing" project. In the process two thirds of the residents of the housing projects were displaced in a situation reminiscing of the Chavez Ravine incident.
Crime

Aliso Village, which combine to form the largest public housing complex west of the Mississippi. Aliso is the poorest parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. According to statistics compiled by the Los Angeles Police Department, Aliso village is also one of the city's most violent neighborhoods. Last year, the highest concentration of gang activity in Los Angeles occurred in the Hollenbeck division--and the highest concentration of gang activity in Hollenbeck was in the mile-square-plus Aliso housing projects. If life in Los Angeles is harsh and scary, it's scariest inAliso village

ELA 13 Dukes was one of the strongest and oldest gangs in the Aliso Village Housing Projects. Having incorporated two smaller gangs, known as "AV Fellas" and "AV Rockers" plus some members of a small gang known as "Alcapone" the gang grew stronger and expanded their territory.

Back in the day(1980's), gang attire included jerseys to show gang pride and affiliation. Football games were the norm whenever 2 or more gangs had to settle a dispute. The games were furious but they allowed gang members to take out their frustrations and small rumbles or fights after the games were the main event. However, no guns or knives were brought to these fights.

Schools
Utah street Elementary school WAS LOCATED AT THE CENTER OF ALISO VILLAGE PROJECTS.
Utah street school was mainly attended by Aliso Village residents.
Pico Aliso and Pico residents had to walk up the hill to 2nd Street Elementary SchoolTHERE WAS ALSO THE FOURTH STREET FLATS GANG

Note
There was two extension to Aliso Village. Pico Aliso and Pico Gardens.
Even though they were so close, the residents of these communities rarely knew of the other. Cause of Gang warfare, Pico and Pico Aliso residents was rarely seen in Aliso Village. Gang Segregation.

Notable residents
*Paul Gonzales
*Mike Garrett
*Paulion Hunt
*Daniel Ramos
*Willie Davis
*Sam Balter

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