Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles reports and publications
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Scope and Contents
These documents were donated by the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) after its dissolution in accordance with the 2011 Budget Act. The contents of this collection include, but are not limited to, development plans, research, correspondence, and public relations materials related to the CRA's operations. The research materials included in this collection are generally oriented around specific redevelopment projects that were proposed to benefit individual neighborhoods or populations. These materials include studies on transportation (mass transit use, bike use, parking studies), homeless populations, living wage statistics, etc. Among the materials related to each individual project are plans and projected graphics and maps. Proposed and researched projects include Los Angeles Metro improvements, plans for solving the Skid Row homeless problem, Los Angeles River revitalization, and numerous construction projects for various downtown neighborhoods aimed at facilitating more public use while reducing congestion. Also, among the documents are plans and studies from other cities, ostensibly used for comparative research.
Dates
- Creation: 1957 - 2012
Creator
- Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Administrative History
Created in 1948, the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles was dedicated to revitalizing, refurbishing, and renewing economically depressed areas of Los Angeles. As an independent agency, the CRA existed until the 2011 Budget Act, signed into law on June 28, 2011, dissolved over 400 redevelopment agencies (RDAs), including the CRA. Before the elimination of RDAs, $5 billion per year in local property taxes were diverted to these agencies to fund redevelopment projects and research. Since the dissolution of RDAs, these property tax funds are again used locally for public services.
Extent
58.625 Linear Feet (49 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Created in 1948, the Community Redeveloment Agency of the City of Los Angeles was dedicated to revitalizing, refurbishing, and renewing economically depressed areas of Los Angeles. As an independent agency, the CRA existed until the 2011 Budget Act, signed into law on June 28, 2011, dissolved over 400 redevelopment agencies (RDAs), including the CRA. The contents of this collection include, but are not limited to, development plans, research, correspondence, and public relations materials related to the CRA's operations. The research materials included in this collection are generally oriented around specific redevelopment projects that were proposed to benefit individual neighborhoods or populations. These materials include studies on transportation (mass transit use, bike use, parking studies), homeless populations, living wage statistics, etc.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the Community Redevelopment Agency to the Von KleidSmid Center Library; transferred to Special Collections May 25, 2016. The collection was assembled by Donald Spivack, adjunt professor in the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, during his tenure as Deputy Chief of Operations and Policy for the CRA.
Processing Information
This collection is not fully processed.
Subject
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Finding aid for the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles reports and publications
- Status
- Minimally Processed
- Author
- Laurel Schmuck
- Date
- 2016 June
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2020 September: Finding aid updated by Bo Doub: updated container locations and created new container records using container lists from a collections move by Backstage Library Works.
- 2023 January: Finding aid updated by Marissa Chavez and Sarah Jardini for History Associates Incorporated.
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
specol@usc.edu