August 16, 2021
The Urban Displacement Project (UDP) is a research and action initiative of UC Berkeley. UDP conducts community-centered, data-driven, applied research toward more equitable and inclusive futures for cities. Our research aims to understand and describe the nature of gentrification, displacement, and exclusion, and also to generate knowledge on how policy interventions and investment can respond and support more equitable development. The goal of UDP is to produce rigorous research and create tools to empower advocates and policymakers, to reframe conversations, (more...)
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August 16, 2021
A series of resources designed to further your understanding of environmental racism and how to take action.
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February 19, 2021
Outlines the disparate impact of racist housing policy and COVID-19 on communities of color and offers possible solutions that cities can enact.
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February 19, 2021
This report outlines the previous overtly and covertly racist housing and land use policies that shaped the Bay Area into what we see today. Researchers tie practices like redlining to the prevelance of subprime mortgages and foreclosures in communities of color that translated to the inequities and segregation of the Bay Area.
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