EQUITY AND INCLUSION -- Part 35

Planning, Zoning and other Land Use Policy Best Practices to Erase Errors of the Past that Perpetuated Bias and Deepened Inequality

“Cities planning for highways said (African American communities) were blight, so they were not given anything close to replacement value. 

Their ownership was taken from them and they became renters,” he continued. 

“The one thing we know the greatest source of integrational wealth transfer is homeownership. 

Even in gentrification, if the businesses and houses are owner occupied, everyone reaps the benefits. 

When bad policies took away ownership and made people renters, now a gentrifying neighborhood displaces renters and (deepens the wounds from property takings done generations ago).”