Racial Equity, Environmental Justice & Community Stewardship of Real Estate

As low-income BIPOC communities across the US continue to grapple with increasing racial, health, and economic disparities, the root cause of these inequities remains the same—a country founded upon the slavery of Black People and the genocide of Indigengous People, as well as extending US imperialism to other parts of the world. As a result of racist policies and practices, our communities have become sacrifice zones for the benefit of whiter, wealthier communities and community voices have been silenced, limiting access to critical resources, including health and housing.

Community Ownership & Stewardship both center collective economics and self-determination which ensure residents have control over their own communities, and that they share in all its work and wealth. Since traditional forms of land and resource ownership have extracted value from our communities, we propose community control of assets as a strategy toward healing and justice by shifting toward a living economy. We create community control of assets and resources through community decision-making, uplifting a model of public control over public resources for public good.