Community Wealth Building as an Anti Displacement Strategy

Urban waters' practitioners need to consider gentrification and displacement in their work. Greening neighborhoods and improving water quality in urban rivers is intended to create healthier neighborhoods, yet the impact on historically marginalized communities isn’t always positive as environmental improvements can also raise the cost of living in a region. In some cases, greening results in further marginalization.

Members of the Urban Waters Learning Network Equitable Development Collaborative hosted this recorded session about Community Wealth-Building on April 2021. Building community wealth helps people to stay in place and is an important step in equitable development initiatives. This recorded peer call highlights several organizations using different strategies to build community wealth.

Moderators: Alicia Smith (Junction Coalition) and Arthur Johnson (Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development).

Presenters: Janet Hales (Advocates for Basic Legal Equality) and Kattie Bond-Hancock (Lucas Metropolitan Housing).