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LA Times Today: Years after freeway’s demise, L.A. renters are buying state-owned homes

LA Times Today: Years after freeway’s demise, L.A. renters are buying state-owned homes

Watch L.A. Times Today at 8 p.m. on Spectrum News 1 on Channel 1 or live stream on the Spectrum News App. Palos Verdes Peninsula and Orange County viewers can watch on Cox Systems on channel 99.

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It was a freeway that had been planned for decades, but never built. Many of the homes that Caltrans bought with the intention of tearing down have stood empty – boarded up and in decay. Some were rented out.

But now, six years after the freeway was officially declared dead, there’s a chance to bring the neighborhood back to life.

Lisa McRee talked with longtime resident Patricia Payan and L.A. Times reporter Liam Dillon.

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