The Battle Over Chavez Ravine

Vicente Montalvo's grandparents grew up and fell in love in Palo Verde, one of the neighborhoods that make up a community known as Chavez Ravine. In the early 1950s, the city decided that Chavez Ravine was the perfect site to build public housing. So the residents were forced to sell their homes under the city's use of eminent domain. But the election of a new mayor, would end up canceling those plans, and instead the land would become what many know today as Dodger Stadium.This segment was originally aired in 2017.Subscribe to our newsletter by going to the top of our homepage. Follow us on TikTok and YouTube.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.