The Sellout |  5: How Downtown Was Won

The Sellout | 5: How Downtown Was Won

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The Sellout | 6: The Heyday

Gentrification comes in waves. Over years, a piece of downtown LA transformed from Skid Row, to a bastion for young artists, to a hipster neighborhood with some of the highest rents in the city. By 2018, Huizar was allegedly collecting bribes from developers planning a luxury hig ...  Show more

The Sellout | 7: The Coverup

Huizar’s downfall started with a sexual harassment lawsuit. He didn’t have the hundreds of thousands of dollars to settle the suit on his own... so the Feds say he relied on a new friend. A developer who had plans to build a 77-story hotel in downtown LA. A Neon Hum Media and Son ...  Show more

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