Thread by @damienISgoodmon

Speaking of reparative, we’re going to be seeking to define “reparative housing plan” for Black people in California as part of recommendations that go to the State Reparations Task Force.

(Trust me YIMBY ain’t gonna like it.) #SelfDetermination /1

https://twitter.com/hyphy_republic/status/1536155762120019968

The point I emphasize in every reparations convo on housing don’t just think a/b the cash: regulations can be far more widespread & quickly implemented.

As an example even if you gave every Blk person $250,000 for down payment on a house: in Crenshaw the homes now go for $1M. /2

To be clear we’ll take & need 💵…but even w/it Black n’hoods would remain inaccessible & vulnerable to displacement.

Tearing down barriers to stable Black housing & communities, combat housing discrimination, requires ADVANTAGING Blk ppl (above non-Blks) & over corporations. /3

So let’s talk eminent domaining all corporate homes & bldgs into Black-led community land trusts. @ecoylogy (h/t to POC leaders @hillside_villa)

Let’s talk Black right-of-refusal for homes.

Talk vacancy CONTROL & rent caps.

This isn’t even the half of what we’re cooking up /4

I say YIMBY won’t like it b/c it conflicts w/their Manifest Destiny ethos (they have the right to a home wherever they want & to remake whatever community they want), and requires shackling/weakening the perpetrators of this white supremacist capitalist housing market. /5

At its root it’s a/b power. Repairing the harm done to Blk ppl who endured chattel slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, restrictive covenants, steering, fwy construction, mass incarceration, divestment requires transferring power to Blk communities…Black self-determination. /6