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Print On a recent visit, Peck Park was quiet and the water serene and undisturbed as runners and families made their way along the paved path around the lake. Off the road, tents stood under trees where unhoused people lived quietly by the water. The park’s stillness, though, belied the heated debate that broke out last month when the Arcadia City Council discussed plans to build tiny shelters for the homeless population in the city on a small parcel of land there. The only thing that activists for and against the shelters agreed on was that the one-room dwellings were just a temporary solution that wouldn’t address the larger issues of unaffordable housing. And because the Arcadia City Council decided to table the issue to study it further, it’s unlikely that the project will ever be completed because the grant money that would have funded it has been awarded to other cities instead. As Arcadia’s homeless resource hub closes next month, the status quo will rema ....
a series on all the work that remains after Donald Trump’s presidency. On Tuesday, the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino released a new study of 16 jurisdictions across the country, which found a 164% increase in reports of anti-Asian hate crimes in the first quarter of 2021, compared with the same period in 2020. New York City saw the most significant increase at 223%, followed by San Francisco at 140%, Los Angeles at 80% and Boston at 60%. The surge in anti-Asian violence has drawn national attention in recent months, as well as important dialogue about the long history of erasure, depoliticization, and at times, weaponization of Asian identity to reinforce white supremacy through popular “model minority” tropes. These conversations have led to vital activism and action on the community level. On the policy level, lawmakers have responded by passing legislation to address anti-Asian violence through hate crime legislation, whic ....