The Community Justice Collaborative of the NC Housing Coalition is a new Triangle-region initiative working in and with a dozen historically Black neighborhoods facing various stages of gentrification. The primary purpose of the Collaborative is to:
- Support and connect community-led efforts in historically Black communities to prevent the displacement of long-term neighbors
- Enable affordable and equitable housing development fulfilling neighborhood visions
Read more on our blog: New Community Justice Collaborative Supports Historically Black Neighborhoods
Aims of the Community Justice Collaborative:
- Foster connections, collaboration, and synergy between historically Black neighborhoods and community-based organizations across the Triangle that would deepen tool sharing and feed policy and advocacy change at local, regional, and state levels.
- Support neighborhood efforts to combat displacement and land loss through long-term neighbor retention strategies: aging-in-community support, property tax equity analysis and advocacy, radical estate and community planning, and creative placemaking.
- Facilitate additional community development, real estate, and land-banking strategies that are structured to build on and be shaped by the power of community organizing, to further enable community-self-determination, and to operate in ways that can bend the market toward community justice.
- Support textured community organizing by working with neighbors to combine the power of stories with neighborhood-owned data to fuel policy advocacy, community development mobilization, and creative homeowner recruitment efforts.
- Mobilize and structure institutional relationships and affordable housing and faith-based partnerships to support community-first efforts, including helping to mobilize critical resources under the control of neighborhoods
