Buying Space, Policing Race
How Virginia Commonwealth University’s efforts to expand by buying up property in Richmond and creating a highly-policed bus route through historically Black neighborhoods has contributed to White Supremacy.
Tag: gentrification
Vets for Housing Equality: The AVC and Racial Justice
What masqueraded as a policy to create improved housing was, in reality, a means of destroying Black property and community to amplify White wealth and mobility.
Erasure is a Slippery Slope
There is a narrative of racism that permeates all of Decatur, Georgia that goes much deeper than a stone monument.
The Moses Cemetery: Where Serial Displacement Meets History
People who lived in communities destroyed by urban renewal and gentrification frequently frame their narratives about displacement as theft. They see their homes, businesses, and churches as stolen by capitalism. Spaces for the dead are among those stolen and erased.
