This summer, the Hollywood Community Studio (HCS) has continued its community-based research in the neighborhoods that make up the CRA/LA’s Hollywood Redevelopment Project Area. This year we are focusing on the northern part of the project area, which extends from La Brea to the 101 and from Franklin to Selma. HCS hits the streets with a neighborhood opinionnaire asking residents and workers what they think about the physical and social changes taking place in their community, and how best to create a healthier Hollywood neighborhood. With only a month into the summer engagement process, we have already reached our goal of surveying 300 residents and workers! We surveyed the 300th neighborhood participant yesterday, and we still have two more weeks to go in the survey administration process!
This has been an amazing feat for the civic engagement of Hollywood, as it establishes Hollywood as a neighborhood with its own community voices. Additionally, HCS has served as an educational field internship for several students from various local colleges including CSUN, Antioch, Cal State Pomona, UCLA, and USC. If you would like to see the results of our research report from 2009, Central Hollywood Now, please visit the publications tab on our website.
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