Our Work

Safety is the presence of well being and the infrastructure to support victims and survivors in a respectful way. Reimagined public safety is investing in community-based programs, trauma-informed practitioners, resolving conflict to peaceful outcomes, and focusing on victims and survivors (Peoples Budget LA). Community elder, Khayree Jannah, states, “at the People’s Market, we are psychologists, therapists, counselors and also social workers.”

  • Food & Culinary Justice: Creating Access to Healthy Food

    Our market combines the convenience store business model with grassroots community organizing practices. We are responding to food apartheid and the lack of healthy food outlets in Skid Row by strengthening local partnerships and fostering community reinvestment practices to support long lasting regenerative economies.

  • Economic Enfranchisement: Equitable Labor and Building Workers Power

    We are removing structural barriers to employment, improving working conditions, increasing wages and building a safe and supportive work environment. We practice collective input in decision-making, discover skills and gifts, and accountability to one another. As a small business, we demonstrate a human-centered and human- scale enterprise creating social and economic justice – thinking globally, acting locally.

  • Beloved Community Practice: The Fight for Public Life & Place

    In Ray Oldenburg’s The Great Good Place, third places or great good places are the heart of a community’s social vitality and the grassroots of a democracy. Since 1992, we have fought and struggled to preserve public life from gentrification, redlining and mass banishment through family preservation and building networks of mutual aid and support.

  • Racial Reconciliation & Healing

  • Community Accountability & Transformative Justice

    Build skills and offer models that can help us with safety, accountability, and community self-determination.