TENTS AND TENANTS: After Echo Park Lake – Tenants in the Streets, A Panel Discussion
In partnership with Skid Row History Museum & Archive, a project of Los Angeles Poverty Department
Friday, February 21, 2025
Event Description
This discussion foregrounds the struggles of housed and unhoused tenants, those who are forced to live on the streets and take to the streets. View photographs from “Tenants in the Streets” panel discussion here.
- Pamela Miller, Skid Row Museum & Archive
- Ananya Roy, UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy
- Lupita Limón Corrales, LA Tenants Union
- Pete White, Los Angeles Community Action Network
- Deshonay Dozier, Claremont Graduate University/Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
- Erin McElroy, University of Washington/Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
- Annie Powers, After Echo Park Lake Research Collective/LA Tenants Union
Video filmed by Skid Row History Museum & Archive, a project of Los Angeles Poverty Department.
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The UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy organized TENTS AND TENANTS: After Echo Park Lake, a public exhibition about how poor people make the city their home, even in the face of state violence. Abandoned by the city during a global pandemic, unhoused organizers created an encampment at Echo Park Lake that soon became an uprising against the policed-propertied order of Los Angeles. The exhibition and associated public programs activate an archive of organizing histories that is intended to be the practice of a collective future.
