Healthy families, healthy homes

This poster will show the work of a grassroots group of community promotoras working in the South Central Los Angeles area to empower residents on environmental health hazards and slum housing conditions. Los Angeles has some of California's oldest housing stock, exposing families in our community to lead hazards, asthma triggers, etc. These health hazards are often unrecognized, or unchallenged by tenants fearing the unjust evictions and displacement that could result from complaints. The area is a gentrifying community, with families being displaced by local university students, who are more profitable tenants to slumlords, providing constant turnover of security deposits and a market for higher rents, but offer no benefit in terms of community development.

This poster will put a human face to the reality of slum housing statistics in this city. It will also provide information on the local organizations partnering for social justice, with particular attention to slum housing conditions, tenant rights, access to health services, and housing-based health needs.

The Los Angeles Healthy Homes Project works in the community to build trust that empowers families in changing our community. Our poster will inform participants of the housing conditions many of our low-income families, their severe health consequences, and our strategies for change.