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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February 19, 2021
Outlines various policies and strategies to break up racial residential segregation across the Bay Area, broken down by the following categories: 1. Curtailing Restrictive Land Use Policies & Regulations 2. Rent Control for Integrated or Integrating Communities 3. Mobility Strategies 4. Fair Share & Inclusionary Zoning 5. Affordable Housing & Other Integrative Subsidies
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February 19, 2021
Part of a larger series deconstructing our idea of race, this chapter focuses on how racist housing policy led to de facto and de jure segregation and the racial wealth gap we see today. (Run time 29:18)
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February 19, 2021
Understanding the impact of previous racist national and local housing policy on the disparities in homeownership we see today. Presented by Greenlining Institute & The Two Hundred. (Run time 1:28:15)
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February 19, 2021
A presentation of UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belong Institute’s research regarding racial residential segregation in the Bay Area and policy implications for addressing these challenges. Presented by UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute. (Run time 54:57)
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February 19, 2021
PolicyLink is a national research and action institute advancing racial and economic equity by Lifting Up What Works in the arenas of an equitable economy, healthy communities of opportunity, and a just society.
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February 19, 2021
Founded in 1991, Living Cities is a collaborative of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions fostering transformational relationships across sectors to connect those who are willing to do the hard work of closing racial income and wealth gaps. They provide various resources to advance equity in organizations and close the racial wealth gap.
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February 19, 2021
How could Northern California, the wealthiest and most politically progressive region in the United States, become one of the earliest epicenters of the foreclosure crisis? How could this region continuously reproduce racial poverty and reinvent segregation in old farm towns one hundred miles from the urban core? This is the story of the suburbanization of poverty, the failures of regional planning, urban sprawl, NIMBYism, and political fragmentation between middle-class white environmentalists and communities of color. As Alex Schafran shows, the (more...)
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February 19, 2021
Urban Habitat’s Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute (BCLI) trains and supports leaders from low-income communities of color to influence housing, transportation, and land use policies as decision makers. We work with leaders committed to advancing equitable policies, help them get onto public boards and commissions, and provide individualized support throughout their commission service.
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