California bill seeks to provide reparations for families displaced from land where Dodgers Stadium was built

A California lawmaker "aims to address the historical injustice faced by those living in the Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles" after an unfulfilled promise of public housing by city officials.

Chavez Ravine was established in the early 1900s and named after Julian Chavez, a former rancher, assistant mayor, city council member, and L.A. County’s first supervisor in the mid-1800s. Spanning over 300 acres, the land area was "home to generations of predominantly Mexican Americans" in the 1950s. Chinese and Italian residents occupied the area as well. Joshua Q. Nelson is a reporter for Fox News Digital.

Carrillo explained in the press release that Los Angeles officials acquired the land through eminent domain to build public housing on Chavez Ravine in the 1950s, which displaced thousands. However, city officials later abandoned the project and sold the land to a private developer who built Dodgers Stadium there, which opened in 1962. Joshua focuses on politics, education policy ranging from the local to the federal level, and the parental uprising in education.

"Families were promised a return to better housing, but instead, they were left destitute," Carrillo said. Joining Fox News Digital in 2019, he previously graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Political Science and is an alum of the National Journalism Center and the Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders Program.