REDRESS

re-dress / rɘ’dres /

verb: To remedy, set right or fix something that is wrong.

WELCOME TO THE REDRESS MOVEMENT

BUILDING A FUTURE WITH

Economic Opportunity

Fair Housing

Educational Equity

Safe Communities

Healthy Lives

We envision a society where the harm done through segregation has been remedied and repaired, where all of our citizens live in well-resourced neighborhoods, all of our community members have equal access to home ownership, and where what zip code you were born into no longer determines the shape of your life.

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Local Stories of Segregation:

These StoryMaps tell the stories of the real people and places directly impacted by discriminatory policies and practices of segregation as they occurred on the ground.

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Our Resources:

Vocabulary

A comprehensive list of all Redress Movement Vocabulary.

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Citizen’s Guide

A guide consisting of a series of questions we encourage you to ask of your community to understand its current state of segregation.

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Curriculum

The Redress Movement’s base of resources divided into modules, as well as the comprehensive curriculum for those wanting a deeper dive.

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History & Mission

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Many large banks denied conventional loans to qual

Many large banks denied conventional loans to qualified Black and Hispanic borrowers and disproportionately marketed exploitative loans to these borrowers. According to a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice, Bank of America’s Countrywide subsidiary charged over 200,000 Black and Hispanic/Latino homeowners higher interest rates and fees than white borrowers with similar credit worthiness. Countrywide was also accused of refusing to offer these homeowners conventional mortgages for which they were qualified and which they would have been offered had they been white.

Transportation Racism creates dangerous living con

Transportation Racism creates dangerous living conditions AS WELL AS inflicts long-term heath consequences.

Without redress, poor, mostly Black residents in cities across the country will continue to suffer disproportionately from soaring temps and poor air quality.

‼️If our policies aren’t good for the people of these communities, OR for our planet, who exactly are they good for? ‼️

Exclusionary zoning ordinances enforced residentia

Exclusionary zoning ordinances enforced residential segregation as a pushback to the growing numbers of Blacks fleeing the South during the early years of the Great Migration at the start of the 20th century.

Even though these ordinances were ruled unconstitutional in the 1917 Buchanan v. Warley U.S. Supreme Court case, communities found creative zoning workarounds with similar results.

In Berkeley, California, for example, real estate developers at the start of the 20th century embraced single-family zoning laws to make sure local costs of housing were so high in their neighborhoods that people of color could not possibly afford to move in. This, along with other practices of charging Black families with higher interest rates or just refusing them loans has only worsened the wealth gap between Black and white families.

If this is you, go check out the link in our bio.

If this is you, go check out the link in our bio.

Blockbusting is just one example of the ways that

Blockbusting is just one example of the ways that racial segregation harmed all parties involved, except those who stood to make a profit off it.

In 1954 in East Palo Alto, CA one Black family purchased a home in a whites-only area. Almost immediately, Floyd Lowe of the California Real Estate Association set up an office with other real estate agents to panic other white families in the area into listing their homes for sale. They warned white families that a “Negro invasion” was underway and would collapse housing values. Whites began to sell their homes at a discounted price to these real estate agents and speculators. As whites began selling their homes, the agents posted advertisements seeking “Colored Buyers!” in San Francisco newspapers, and charged inflated prices to Black buyers for the homes. Within a three-month period, one agent sold sixty formerly white-owned properties to Blacks. Sometimes these home prices were so over-inflated that homes purchased by Black buyers through blockbusting could be appraised at far lower values even decades later.

"Undoing the effects of de jure segregation will b

"Undoing the effects of de jure segregation will be incomparably difficult. To make a start, we will first have to contemplate what we have collectively done and, on behalf of our government, accept responsibility." -Richard Rothstein

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#housing #urbanrenewal #housinginequity

Who really benefits from investments in transporta

Who really benefits from investments in transportation? Because historically, investments have favored building highways through Black neighborhoods as opposed to public transportation systems, this disproportionate allocation of funds clearly favors white, suburban residents at the expense of urban communities of color.

Racial Steering is also not just a part of our his

Racial Steering is also not just a part of our history, but a part of our PRESENT!

In 2000, HUD and the Urban Institute conducted the national Housing Discrimination Study to study the extent to which realtors were guiding minority homebuyers away from homes in integrated or white neighborhoods by offering homes in minority neighborhoods. Observing 20 metropolitan areas across the country, they found that the practice of steering was occurring in all of the 20 areas studied.

By the 1960’s, urban renewal projects were displ

By the 1960’s, urban renewal projects were displacing 66,000 predominantly Black families annually without providing sufficient affordable housing for them to move into. These broken communities ties, deepened segregation, isolated people, and made people politically weaker.

And it was funded by the US government.

Urban Renewal, Gentrification, Revitalization, it

Urban Renewal, Gentrification, Revitalization, it can all look like neighborhoods being demolished just for new neighborhoods to be put up in their place!

Whenever we talk about neighborhood development, it’s important to keep in mind who stands to profit off development and, if the answer isn’t the residents, how could funds be spent in a way that actually benefits the people who live there?

Now that we know some of the history behind housin

Now that we know some of the history behind housing segregation in Charlotte, how does that legacy impact Charlotteans today?

The cost of housing inequality in Charlotte and the segregation behind it MUST be rectified to make sure all Charlotteans share in continued collective GROWTH rather than diminishing affordability and displacement.

#housing #housinginequity #charlottenc

Homes located in majority-Black neighborhoods acro

Homes located in majority-Black neighborhoods across the U.S. are valued at $48,000 LESS than homes located in majority-white neighborhoods according to the Brookings Institution. What does this lead to? Metropolitan areas with greater devaluation of Black neighborhoods are MORE segregated and produce LESS upward mobility for the Black children who grow up in those communities.

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