We Are the Ones We’re Waiting For: Building a Base to Fight Gentrification (Room 9207)
Need more people to help save your neighborhood? This workshop will help you think about how to recruit new members and how to develop new leaders. Organizations doing cutting-edge anti-gentrification work across the country discuss base building strategies and how to achieve community self-determination.
Ilana Berger, Families for Racial and Economic Equity (FUREE)
CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities
Fabulous, Independent Radicals for Community Empowerment (FIERCE)
Just Cause Oakland
Notes:
At the workshop, the topic of gentrification-enabling public
policies came up. The following are a
few the group discussed:
- Erosion
of rent protection laws
- Laws
defining who can inherit rental property
- Land
use policies:
- Up/down
zoning
- Rezoning
industrial land as residential
- Tax
policies:
- Real
estate transfer tax – creating incentives for property flipping
- Miscellaneous
taxes, such as the $25,000 tax on mobile health centers implemented by
the City of New York
in the Christopher St./West
Village area
- Inclusionary
zoning ordinances
- Policies
blocking/devaluing community input in planning decisions
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