TENTS AND TENANTS: After Echo Park Lake – Opening

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. View photographs from the opening here.