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LA’s Homeboy Threads: Recycling clothes, creating jobs

04.05.2023 - By KCRWPlay

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A new business focused on training formerly incarcerated people is now diverting thousands of pounds of clothes from landfill each month. Director Colin K. Gray’s “Unzipped” follows housed and unhoused residents of Venice, California in the struggle for the soul of the neighborhood. Renters and activists in Buena Park have put a measure in front of the City Council to make them just the second city in Orange County to enact rent control.

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