San Fernando Gardens is a
housing project
Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authorities, government authority, either central or local. Although the common goal of public housing is to provide affordable housing, the d ...
located in the
Pacoima district of the
San Fernando Valley
The San Fernando Valley, known locally as the Valley, is an urbanized valley in Los Angeles County, California. Located to the north of the Los Angeles Basin, it contains a large portion of the City of Los Angeles, as well as unincorporated ar ...
region of
Los Angeles, California.
San Fernando Gardens
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San Fernando Gardens was built in 1955, with a low-rise, garden apartment design. The project was racially integrated
Racial integration, or simply integration, includes desegregation (the process of ending systematic racial segregation). In addition to desegregation, integration includes goals such as leveling barriers to association, creating equal opportunity ...
; Like the district surrounding it, San Fernando Gardens is now overwhelmingly Latino
Latino or Latinos most often refers to:
* Latino (demonym), a term used in the United States for people with cultural ties to Latin America
* Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States
* The people or cultures of Latin America;
** Latin A ...
and African American. It is the northernmost project in Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles's system.
Education
The facility is assigned to the following Los Angeles Unified School District
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is a public school district in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is the largest public school system in California in terms of number of students and the 2nd largest public school district in ...
schools:
* Pacoima Elementary School
* Maclay Middle School
* San Fernando High School
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File:San Fernando Gardens Apartments.JPG, San Fernando Gardens
File:San Fernando Gardens.jpg, Apartment buildings on Lehigh Avenue
References
Public housing in Los Angeles
Buildings and structures in the San Fernando Valley
Pacoima, Los Angeles
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