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.
read moreBeyond the legal segregation of the Jim Crow South, the U.S. is full of municipalities that were dangerous for Black travelers.
read morePrioritizing equitable education, housing, public health services, and more can help reduce crime and police dependency.Â
read moreEmerald (ze/hir), is a housing activist and member of the board of the South Bay Community Land Trust (SBLCT). Emerald talked about what runaway housing costs look like in the area and discussed their particular effects on oppressed populations like queer youth and elders.
read moreDavid Carbajal Torres organizes with Tenants United Santa Ana (Tú Santa Ana). shows how rent hikes and gentrification displace immigrant communities. David also discussed the community resistance to displacement through organizing, culture, and community ties.
read moreVasudha 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.
read moreNoni 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.
read moreBlack homeowners are routinely experiencing low appraisal values, preventing them from building generational wealth.
read moreIn 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.
read moreJust 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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