Community Conversations about Inclusion and Exclusion: Sandusky Past, Present, and Future: Housing and Neighborhoods In-Person
This program invites all of us, as citizens of Sandusky, to explore and examine a part of our history we have seldom engaged. This series will allow you to better understand communities/neighborhoods that are close but separate us through our differences. Join Sandusky Library as we discover our past to create a more inclusive future.
This will be a hybrid program. The presenter may be virtual or in-person and participants may attend in person or virtually with a provided link.
Link to virtual program: https://sanduskylibrary.webex.com/sanduskylibrary/j.php?MTID=m8fa7f5e96c41830b21884203a8da60f4
Password if needed: community
Recommended reading list will be made available.
Information on how to discover past records about your home will be available.
Registration required to secure your seat in-person.
Masks are required for in-person programming.
Space is limited and will be enforced.
If you are on the waiting list, come that night. We will have an overflow room to watch the presentation.
Background Reading and Viewing
for Community Conversations About Inclusion and Exclusion: Sandusky Past, Present, and Future: Housing and Neighborhoods
Thursday, October 21 at 6:30
In-person space is limited. Virtual viewing available.
How Urban Design Perpetuates Racial Inequality–And What We Can Do About It
https://www.fastcompany.com/3061873/how-urban-design-perpetuates-racial-inequality-and-what-we-can-do-about-it
Does Urban Planning Have a Race Problem?
https://kinder.rice.edu/2015/10/29/does-urban-planning-have-a-race-problem
NPR Redlining (video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5FBJyqfoLM
Transcript from NPR 2020
RACHEL MARTIN: When people talk about structural racism, they often point to redlining. That was a practice the banks used for decades to avoid lending money to the residents of Black and immigrant neighborhoods. Though redlining was outlawed in 1968, a new nationwide study shows it continues to have an effect on the health of neighborhoods and the people who live there. NPR's Maria Godoy reports.
MARIA GODOY: Torey Edmonds has lived in the same house in the east end ofChurchill in a
largely African American section of Richmond, Va., since the 1950s.
TOREY EDMONDS: I came - I actually came home from the hospital into this house.
GODOY: Edmonds says when she was a little girl, the neighborhood was a place of tidy homes with rose bushes and fruit trees and residents had ready access to local businesses.
EDMONDS: You know, we had a bowling alley, a movie theater, several grocery stores
GODOY: Eventually, her parents tried to get a loan so they could get new windows or the house. They were rejected.
EDMONDS: And for a long time, the house was deteriorating. And that's what you see with a lot of the homes in the community. If the bank's not loaning, then things deteriorate.
GODOY: Researchers say this is a classic example of what happened tocommunities across the U.S. that were once subject to a discriminatory lending policy called redlining. The practice dates back to the 1930s when the federal government rated neighborhoods to help mortgage lenders decide which areas of cities were risky. Those with African Americans and immigrants were almost always considered to be the highest risk and they were marked in red on maps, hence redlining. Jason Richardson is research director with the National CommunityReinvestment Coalition. They recently released a study conducted
with the University of WisconsinMilwaukee and the University of Richmond. It analyzed historic redlining maps from communities across the U.S. and compared them with health outcomes in those areas today. What they found was a disturbing
pattern.
JASON RICHARDSON: When banks and other actors are discouraged from lending in a community, you see a very kind of predictable arc of that community, right?
GODOY: A lack of investment meant houses fell into disrepair. That led to
Health hazards like mold and lead paint. Redlined neighborhoods were more likely to be near industrial sites, which meant more exposure to pollution. And they were less likely to have parks and grocery stores, which meant less access to healthy food and places to exercise. Torey Edmonds saw this play out in her Richmond neighborhood. By the 1970s, she says many homes had become rentals. Local stores disappeared.
EDMONDS: And then when they did come back, they were, like, those 40-ounce stores, those corner stores that sold a lot of cheap beer and wine, no
real food.
GODOY: It wasn't just this neighborhood. It's also true in neighborhoods in Chicago, Milwaukee, Miami. Jason Richardson says that in the 142 urban areas they studied, people who live in neighborhoods today that were historically redlined have shorter lifespans on average. They also have higher rates of diabetes, obesity, hypertension, kidney disease, asthma, stroke, many of which are risk factors for more severe cases of COVID-19.
RICHARDSON: When I stop and think about it, I'm kind of, you know, shocked by the lingering impact of these policies.
GODOY: But the study's conclusions come as no surprise to Torey Edmonds.
EDMONDS: Trust me. I know.
GODOY: Edmonds works for Virginia Commonwealth University promoting community health, and she knows that the average life expectancy in the mostlyBlack community where she lives is just 67 years. That's 22 years less than in a well-off white community a few miles away, a community that got the highest rating on those government redlining maps back in the 1930s.
Systemic racism has consequences for all life in cities
https://www.washington.edu/news/2020/08/13/systemic-racism-has-consequences-for-all-life-in-cities/
Adam Ruins Everything on the suburbs’ whiteness (video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e68CoE70Mk8
American segregation mapped at day and night (2019) (video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaPQN0aW47I
Systemic Inequality: Displacement, Exclusion, and Segregation
History of Racist Planning in Portland
https://www.portland.gov/bps/history-racist-planning-portland
‘Segregated By Design’ examines the forgotten history of how our federal, state and local governments unconstitutionally segregated every major metropolitan area in America through law and policy.
https://www.segregatedbydesign.com/
Further Reading and Viewing
for Community Conversations About Inclusion and Exclusion: Sandusky Past, Present, and Future: Housing and Neighborhoods
Thursday, October 21 at 6:30
In-person space is limited. Virtual viewing available.
https://boltonhillmd.org/bulletin/coming-to-grips-with-our-history/
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-to-confront-a-racist-national-history
https://www.epi.org/blog/detroits-bankruptcy-reflects-history-racism/
https://racialgeographytour.org
https://dusp.mit.edu/news/urban-plannings-role-racial-social-justice
https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2020/07/31/urban-planning-segregation-white-supremacy
http://sanduskyhistory.blogspot.com/2016/05/macarthur-park-and-fairlawn-court.html
http://sanduskyhistory.blogspot.com/2016/05/macarthur-park-and-fairlawn-court.html?m=1
- Date:
- Thursday, October 21, 2021
- Time:
- 6:30pm - 8:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Library Program Room
- Sandusky Library:
- Sandusky Library
- Audience:
- Adults Tweens/Teens Young Adult
- Categories:
- Adult Program