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.

Click on the links below to join the conversation.

OUR MOVEMENT’s RESOURCES:

Policy Briefs

Our movement’s illustrations of restorative policies that our readers can endorse to win redress.

1. Property Taxes and Racial Redress

2. Corporate Landlords and Racial Redress

More coming soon!

Vocabulary

A comprehensive list of all Redress Movement Vocabulary.

Go to Vocabulary

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.

Go to Citizen’s Guide

Curriculum

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

Go to Curriculum

History & Mission

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Have you taken our Say "YES" to Redress pledge yet

Have you taken our Say "YES" to Redress pledge yet?

By taking this pledge, you’ll be connected to other Redress Neighbors around the country who, like you, want to make change in desegregating our neighborhoods and are looking for like-minded folks. You will receive our latest news wraps, information on ways to connect with Neighbors around the country, and invitations to upcoming events (webinars, trainings, and live streams) from The Redress Movement.

Our goal is to get 2000 Redress Neighbors to Say ‘YES’ to Redress by the end of the year. Will you be one of them?

LINK TO THE PLEDGE IN BIO!

As we wind down our first year, The Redress Moveme

As we wind down our first year, The Redress Movement has been reflecting on what we’ve been able to accomplish together in our first year as an organization. We’ve built a community of over six thousand neighbors and we’re growing every day.

We need your support to continue to building communities that we all want to live in, so on this Giving Tuesday, we are asking you to do two things:

1. Take our pledge
2. Make a tax free donation to The Redress Movement
(Link to both in bio!)

By taking this pledge you have an opportunity to join with Redress Neighbors from around the country who are all working towards desegregating each of our own neighborhoods. Your gift will help sustain our Redress programming and grow our organizational capacity so we can assist every community reaching out to us to redress their neighborhood.

Yours in Solidarity,
The Redress Movement

What is the Redress Movement all about? Our Dr. Ti

What is the Redress Movement all about? Our Dr. Tiffany Manuel explains our vision. This clip is from our first webinar last month, and the link to register for our next webinar on November 28th just went live! You can register via the link in our bio!

It’s a sad day.

It’s a sad day.

Don’t mind me just ✨doing a little✨ explaini

Don’t mind me just ✨doing a little✨ explaining. Catch The Recon live every Thursday at 6:30 pm EST

#theredressmovement #wealthgap #neighborhooddevelopment #segregation #housing #housingjustice

LINK TO REGISTER IS IN BIO! The Redress Movement

LINK TO REGISTER IS IN BIO!

The Redress Movement empowers communities to document the history of segregation, change the narrative, and build Black led, multi-racial direct-action campaigns to win redress. In this webinar, we’ll talk with people from a number of different cities who are doing the work to document that history and use it to mobilize their communities to take action - to win redress! If you want to learn more about how to document this history and change the narrative in your community, you don’t want to miss this webinar!

In 1955 a Black couple in Chicago named Albert and

In 1955 a Black couple in Chicago named Albert and Sallie Bolton purchased a home from white real estate agent named Jay Goran for $13,900 using a land contract. Goran had purchased the property the week before for just $4,300. When the Boltons could not keep up with the inflated payments Goran assigned them they were removed from their home and the home was repossessed, with no amount of their equity given back to them in return. Goran had also recently filed repossession claims on twenty other properties he sold to Black families.

According to Beryl Satter’s 2009 book Family Properties, roughly 85 percent of homes sold to Black buyers in Chicago at mid-century were bought on contract. A later study estimated that contract buying robbed Black Chicagoans of roughly $3-4 billion dollars during the 1950s and 1960s.

Had a bit of a culture (read: chaos) break during

Had a bit of a culture (read: chaos) break during last weeks livestream

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.

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