Planning, Zoning and other Land Use Policy Best Practices to Erase Errors of the Past that Perpetuated Bias and Deepened Inequality
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| George Homewood |
George Homewood is the planning director for Norfolk, Va., and served on the task force that created the APA equity policy guide.
“Unfortunately, a legacy that planners have to face up to — one of the key components to the equity policy guide — is the tools of our profession got co-opted and used to divide rather than bring together,” Homewood said.
“When properties were acquired for highways, African American businesses and houses were taken.
These were properties folks owned.
Not only were properties taken, to further compound the crime, they were given a discounted, unfair market value.
They were not paid what would allow them to replace
their business or living conditions."
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