Going Beyond the Flint Water & Housing Crises: Community-led Solutions for Equitable Systems Recode is pleased to welcome panelist speakers Monica-Lewis Patrick, CEO of We the People of Detroit and Cat Goughnour of the Right 2 Root Campaign. Ms. Lewis-Patrick will discuss how decades of planning decisions led predictably to the Detroit and Flint water crises and its relationship to gentrification, displacement, and a regional housing crisis. Ms. Goughnour will share how we can “co-create a people+place-based, health+wealth community stabilization process for Portland’s African American/Black residents to reduce disparities, increase opportunities and generate prosperity.” This session aims to frankly examine the disproportionate effect that historic and current city planning has on disinvested communities. Through case studies of community-led solutions that address wealth and infrastructure disparities, this session also aims to inform and inspire our own community to collectively do better. Recode invites you to read We the People of Detroit’s recent PRESS RELEASE “Detroiters Join Flint in Calling for Safe, Affordable Water for All“ When: Friday, May 4th Time: 6 pm – 8 pm Location: Humboldt Gardens Community Room 5033 N Vancouver Ave Portland, OR 97217 Cost: Free, includes refreshments Registration: https://goo.gl/auHk9w Co-sponsorship opportunity: We hope to find co-sponsors to help us spread the word, which each co-sponsoring organization may define for themselves and might include, for example, a mention in a newsletter, tweets, facebook posts, hanging posters or other approaches. While we would welcome any financial support, co-sponsoring this event does *not* require any financial obligation on your part. To see a list of current co-sponsors, please visit the registration page. Please contact us to become a recognized co-sponsor or just help us spread the word. Thanks for reading! ADDITIONAL READING From We the People of Detroit: PRESS RELEASE “Detroiters Join Flint in Calling for Safe, Affordable Water for All” (May 2016) Shared on the recode website with permission from We the People of Detroit. “Mapping the Water Crisis: The Dismantling of African-American Neighborhoods in Detroit” (2016) shows how decades of planning decisions led predictably to the Detroit and Flint water crises and its relationship to gentrification, displacement, and a regional housing crisis. 2018 Branigin, Anne “More Than 17,000 Detroit Homes at Risk for Water Shut-Off: Report“ From Right2Root: 2017 Robert Wood Johnson/ PolicyLink Convening, “Empowering Health Equity Action with Online Data Tools”, Portland, OR, July 10, 2017 (webinar). http://nationalequityatlas.org/data-in-action/July-Updates-2017 2017 B Corp BLD PNW Summit, “Human Centered Design for Social Impact”, Portland, OR, June 22, 2017. 2017 Design Week: Thinking for Social Impact Panel, “Human Design for Social Impact”, Portland, OR, April 26, 2017. 2016 EcoDistricts Summit, Session, “Right to Root Recipe: Overcoming the Push/Pull Factors of Displacement through Equitable Development”, September 14, 2016. From Others: “Why Aren’t There More Black People in Oregon: A Hidden History” by Walidah Imarisha for Oregon Humanities Conversation Project with support from Portland State University’s Black Studies Program
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