Using civic data to tell the story and impact of racial covenant clauses found in Durham, NC property deeds. Recipient of 2020 Civic Switchboard Field Award.
Durham, NC
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Should universities that have uprooted Black communities pay reparations, or give scholarships to descendants? Virginia officials discuss remedies in light of our reporting. propublica.org/article/commi…
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I'm on the board of @DataWorks_NC and we're hiring a new executive director. Come democratize information, fight displacement and disinvestment, and build local power. Salary range is $82-88K
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Hacking into History is a collaborative effort in Durham to collect and archive racial covenants—or racist restrictions written into legally binding land deeds. indyweek.com/news/durham/hac…
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Corporate landlords often hide behind complex networks of LLCs and LPs to avoid accountability while they push out low-income tenants of color. Our tool #Evictorbook pulls back the curtain to show who is really driving the region’s housing crisis evictorbook.com
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Hey Durham!
I’m in the IndyWeek today discussing our moral crisis around gentrification. We haven’t seen current levels of displacement since urban renewal.
I hope you’ll give it a read.
Census data from Durham shows Black populations in some neighborhoods have undergone mass displacement in alarmingly short time periods. indyweek.com/news/Letters-to…
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Future generations will one day read about the wholesale removal and replacement of one people with another on a scale not seen since urban renewal. 🧵
Tract 9 Block Group 2:
2016 Black Pop. 80.5%
2020 Black Pop. 43.8% – at Durham, NC
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In one year we have located more than 500 covenants and we have mapped our first 100 covenants in preparation for launching a web map. We are proceeding neighborhood by neighborhood through Chicago and city by city through Cook County. Here are our first four neighborhoods:
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Richmond heat map versus ambulance response to heat related illness. High heat areas tend to be concentrated in communities of color due to the absence of cooling greenspaces & increased heat-trapping paved landscapes. #redlining
- Dr. Jeremy Hoffman, Science Museum of Virginia
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If you have participated in a prior Reckoning With Racial Covenants workshop and want to keep working together as we grow a community of practice, please join us on Monday, 2/28 at 7:00pm.
Register here:
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If you have not been able to participate in a @HackDurmHistory workshop yet, you can register at this link for our next public event on Monday, October 4 at 6PM.
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"Nationally, loan applicants of color were 40%–80% more likely to be denied than their White counterparts. In certain metro areas, the disparity was greater than 250%."
themarkup.org/denied/2021/08…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden to announce new eviction ban due to COVID spread.
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It is sometimes hard to see how our academic work is useful in the struggle, but not today. Very proud that the data that we collected about housing conditions in Langley Park are helping tenants sue their corporate landlord for fair housing violations.
dcist.com/story/21/07/20/lan…
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Make sure your people know about the Durham Emergency Rental Assistance program. Submit applications here: durhamerap.dconc.gov/cares
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"It was very painful to see your neighbor's house torn down, and you knew it was coming your way.
And having to move from places that you'd lived all your life—or your family had—to make way for something, because somebody else thought it was bad."
Cynthia Jones Stratton describes the loss of #Charlottesville's Vinegar Hill neighborhood in upcoming documentary feature @myVPM.
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Researchers trace park inequity back to historic housing discrimination trib.al/AW4Dlri
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Wall Street-backed landlords now own more than 11,000 single-family homes in Charlotte: bit.ly/356eHJI via @unccui.
Below: A map showing all the single-family institutional investor-owned homes in Charlotte. Credit: Justin Lane
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Thanks for the great coverage of our effort to reckon with racial covenants, Rebecca Martinez! Glad our partners are featured in the Tested podcast! @HackDurmHistory @wunc @DurhamCounty
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We've published new maps! This one is racial covenants from a random sample of DC property deeds executed in 1921-1948. Each one mapped indicates there were likely many more in the area. They covered far more of DC than we knew. arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewe…
mappingprejudice.umn.edu/sto…
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The Evanston City Council on Monday approved a reparations plan to distribute $400,000 to Black residents with ties to the city’s Black community between 1919 and 1969. bit.ly/3f4iBJl