Kudos to Dr. Herman Gallegos, a lifelong activist who has received many accolades for his work, for his paper that explores how Latinos fit into the national conversations on race in light of the Black Lives Matter movement. |
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Philanthropy, Latinos, and the Public Interest: A Time for Transformational Change
By Herman Gallegos [Aug 28, 2020]
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When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not
in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.
__Adrienne Rich, “Invisibility in Academe”
The COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests have exposed hard truths about the long history of racism and ethnic prejudice in US society, truths that have long been purposely ignored, leaving Blacks and other people of color disproportionately vulnerable to negative consequences for their health, economic security, class, and power. This paper offers a perspective about where Latinos fit in the national conversation on race as the US confronts anti-Black racism. This paper also queries the role philanthropy plays in hindering or abetting the meaning of equity in American life.
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Homing In: Musings on Poverty and Homeownership |
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On our most recent episode, we interviewed Robert Apodaca, who has over 40 years of experience with housing legislation and the nonprofit sector.
Tune in to learn more about what it means to start a nonprofit, the complexities of California housing legislation, and the history of California Community Builders!
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Single-family housing in the Bay Area linked to more racially segregated cities: report
Mercury News
By Leonardo Castañeda [Aug 20, 2020]
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With California cities under mounting pressure to boost housing density, a new report suggests that coveted single-family neighborhoods may be a key driver of racial segregation in the Bay Area.
The University of California, Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute found that single-family zoning typically leads to more expensive homes, while costs are lower in denser communities, locking out many middle and low-income families. That, in turn, helps exclude many residents of color with less wealth, creating more racially segregated neighborhoods, said Stephen Menendian, the report’s co-author.
“It separates people from life-enhancing resources — from jobs, from good schools, from infrastructure and transit, from neighborhood amenities, and parks and safety,” he said.
The report comes as state legislators debate multiple bills that would make it easier to build denser and more affordable housing to alleviate California’s housing crisis, including one that would speed up the process of turning single-family homes into duplexes and another that would allow up to four-units on some lots now zoned for a single home. Meanwhile, city officials from Marin to Lafayette to San Jose are facing often contentious debates about efforts to add more homes in their cities.
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This article shows why we support AB-3040, introduced by Assembly Member Chiu, which serves to require sites that contain single-family dwelling units to also contain 4 dwelling units that are pursuant to certain provisions that enable the identified sites to be redeveloped at a higher density. |
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