Tag: equity
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Fair Housing Month
“…where one lives determines how one lives, influencing quality of life factors such as education, employment, transportation options, public services, safety, recreational access, and a general sense of community.” – CHICAGO METROPOLITAN AGENCY FOR PLANNING FHEA In last Thursday’s post on redlining, I touched on one of the major practices that has historically kept…
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Triptych Tuesday: A Legacy of Inequitable Infrastructure
If the people centered-transportation movement can become a champion for racial and economic equity, it will play a direct an important counter-point to 20th century infrastructure decisions. A major feature in Slate last month, the past and present of auto-centric infrastructure pockmarks nearly all U.S. cities with the brunt of the externalized consequences being shouldered…
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The Bike Movement & Racial Equity via the Center for Social Inclusion
“We define racial equity as both an outcome and a process. A racially equitable society is one in which race no longer determines one’s life outcomes and in which we recognize that when we address inequity, we all share in the benefits of increased fairness and justice.” For today’s post, Make Communities is going to…
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A Legacy of Segregation and Discrimination: Redlining
…the housing sector is a prime example of the confluence of influences, often working together, to tilt the playing field away from communities of color. In Tuesday’s post, we alluded to the multiple institutions, agencies and individual actors that contributed to the development of racial and geographic segregation and discrimination in the Buffalo Niagara region.…
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Separate and Unequal in Buffalo Niagara
“The consequences of racial and ethnic segregation and discrimination directly impact individuals, neighborhoods and the region as a whole.” In the 120 years since the case of Plessy v. Ferguson — which established the doctrine of separate but equal — morality, experience and, eventually, the law have proven time and again that separate can never…