What’s Shaping Our Neighborhoods?
Our neighborhood association, with financial support from the Rochester Area Community Foundation, hosted a special event November 9, 2023, for Rochester-area residents. “What’s Shaping Our Neighborhoods?” addressed the long-term, continuing impact of a national law that led to “redlining” and to local decisions endorsing “restrictive covenants” in housing deeds.
As a result, for decades residents of color in our community did not have opportunities equal to those of white residents to own homes and grow wealth through home equity. Although redlining is now against the law and local restrictive covenants are no longer enforced, their impacts are still evident today, event presenters Shane Wiegand and Kesha James explained. They are co-executive directors of the Antiracist Curriculum Project (ACP), a part of Coordinated Care Services Inc.
In recent years, ACP leaders and volunteers have trained thousands of teachers, taught thousands of students, and taught members of corporations, business associations, realty firms, and the community about past policies that led to harm. Their presentations encourage actions to bring about positive change.
To access the documentary and maps presented at the special event, click the link below: