What is Making A Neighborhood?

A weekly newsletter devoted to highlighting what makes a neighborhood. Subscribe for photo essays, interviews, long-form storytelling, book reviews, local histories, portraits of East Hollywood, and reflections on community making that not only document our rapidly changing neighborhood, but connect the struggles and resilience of our area to neighborhoods across the city, state, and country.

Who is Making A Neighborhood?

This newsletter is homegrown and raised by Samanta Helou Hernandez, the multimedia journalist and creator of This Side of Hoover; Jimmy Recinos, a writer, educator, and host of J.T. the L.A. Storyteller Podcast; and Ali Rachel Pearl, a writer, teacher, and community organizer.

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A newsletter devoted to highlighting what makes a neighborhood. Subscribe for photo essays, interviews, and long-form storytelling about everything from gentrification to the untold story of that one neighbor who grows fruit from Central America.

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Has published essays, poetry, and more for L.A. since 2014; the places he calls home include East Hollywood, Koreatown, Echo Park, Historic Filipinotown and more of central Los Angeles.
Writer, teacher, & community organizer in Los Angeles.
Samanta Helou Hernandez is a multimedia journalist and photographer covering culture, identity, and social issues. In 2017, Samanta created “This Side of Hoover,” an on-going visual archive of gentrification and resilience in East Hollywood.