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Year in Review: The Right to Housing
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Year in Review: The Right to Housing

Though the home is the center of our lives, housing in the United States is not a right but a privilege for those able to afford it.

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The Shameful History of Sundown Towns
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The Shameful History of Sundown Towns

Beyond the legal segregation of the Jim Crow South, the U.S. is full of municipalities that were dangerous for Black travelers.

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Overworked Police? Try Funding Any Other Public Service
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Overworked Police? Try Funding Any Other Public Service

Prioritizing equitable education, housing, public health services, and more can help reduce crime and police dependency. 

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Evict landlords: Emerald (SBCLT) on Community Land Trusts
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Evict landlords: Emerald (SBCLT) on Community Land Trusts

Community land trusts like the SBCLT keep housing affordable and community-controlled by removing it from the private market.

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How Rent Hikes and Gentrifers Displace Immigrant Communities
Members of Tenants United Santa Ana hold signs that read "housing is a human right" and "cap rent @ 3%."

How Rent Hikes and Gentrifers Displace Immigrant Communities

The gentrification of cities like Santa Ana displaces immigrant communities and culture—many of which were already uprooted by U.S. policies.

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Whatever it Takes: Vasudha Kumar on Gentrification
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Whatever it Takes: Vasudha Kumar on Gentrification

Vasudha Kumar is a resident of California’s Silicon Valley. After playing a leading role in a multi-year campaign to stop a new Google megacampus, Vasudha now studies the dynamics of economic displacement in cities around the U.S.

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Direct action is the answer: Noni from EB PREC on resistance and revival.

Direct action is the answer: Noni from EB PREC on resistance and revival.

Noni Session is the Executive Director of the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative in Oakland, California. In a city with a deep Black radical history and some of the most pronounced modern-day displacement, EB PREC is building shared economic and community power by preserving land without landlords.

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How Low Appraisal Values Affect Black Homeownership
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How Low Appraisal Values Affect Black Homeownership

Black homeowners are routinely experiencing low appraisal values, preventing them from building generational wealth.

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Reverse racist land grabs.

Reverse racist land grabs.

In April, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to make amends for a massive land grab rooted in white supremacy, though this remedy came almost a century too late (MSN). In the early twentieth century, Charles and Willa Bruce opened a Manhattan Beach resort that offered other Black families the opportunity to vacation under the Southern California sun. The white residents of Manhattan Beach were not pleased.

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Decommodify housing.

Just because we’re all affected by the pandemic doesn’t mean that we’ve all been affected equally. Women accounted for all 140,000 jobs cut last December. Black and Latina women in particular lost jobs, since employment for white women actually rose that month (CNN). The data is clear: Black and Latina women were the worst-impacted by layoffs, white men the least (Bloomberg).

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