GreenSpacesLA
GreenspacesLA (GSLA) partners with underserved urban neighborhoods to create gardens and pocket-parks that meet their unique community needs. Our mission is to improve outdoor equity by creating small greenspaces that strengthen community unity and by providing outreach programs that ensure the sustainability of our projects for years to come.
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PLAY ·2023 Grants ChallengeWatts Nickerson Gardens CommUNITY Garden
GreenSpacesLA's CommUNITY gardens initiative is a long-term approach to improving outdoor equity in one of LA's most underserved communities: Watts Public Housing Projects. We create and maintain innovative public gardens that are transforming the landscapes and lives of residents by providing local access to nature and increasing unity in the diverse communities there. GSLA currently runs two gardens in Watts Projects: Imperial Courts & Jordan Downs. LA2050 funding will enable us to create our 3rd garden in the Nickerson Gardens development.
- PLAY ·2022 Grants Challenge
Watts Greenspace Project: commUNITY gardens
"Watts GreenSpace Project: commUNITY gardens" is a unique public-private approach to improve outdoor equity in LA Public Housing. By creating small public greenspaces along with community programs needed to support them, this project is transforming weed-infested, concrete, trash-strewn landscapes in Watts Public Housing and promoting Unity in the diverse communities living there. This project addresses the challenges of creating/maintaining greenspaces in Public Housing and the need to increase outdoor equity in vulnerable LA neighborhoods.