Voices from the Community...

Displacement

Housing Affordability

Living Wage

Community Participation

Community Vitality

This page features segments of the video, Voices from the Community: Social Equity & Smart Growth. The video, which premiered at the Round One Smart Growth workshops, discusses the particular growth-related challenges to social equity faced by residents of the Bay Area's most impoverished communities.

Voices from the Commuity: Social Equity & Smart Growth was a collaborative effort of the Social Equity Caucus of the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Communities, the Urban Habitat Program and the Smart Growth Strategy/Regional Livability Footprint Project.

Persons Appearing in Clips:
Displacement:
1. boona cheema, Building Opportunities for
    Self-Sufficiency (BOSS)
2. Angela Glover Blackwell, PolicyLink
3. Antonio Diaz, People Organizing for Environmental
    and Economic Rights (PODER)
4. J. Tim Thomas, Emergency Services Network

Housing Affordability:
1. Allen Edson, 7th Street-McClymonds Neighborhood
    Initiative
2. Antonio Diaz, PODER
3. George Galvis, Marin County Youth Activist

Living Wage:
1. Rev. Andre Schumake, North Richmond Community
    Career Resource Center
2. Amaha Kassa, East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable
    Economy

Community Participation:
1. Ann Ferrell, West Oakland Resident
2. Antonio Diaz, PODER

Community Vitality:
1. John Gioia, Contra Costa County Supervisor, District 1
2. Angela Glover Blackwell, PolicyLink

Director/Camera:
Rick Butler

Editor:
Jane Lurie

To purchase "Voices from the Community: Smart Growth & Social Equity," click on Conference Recordings, Inc. and specify tape number "VOC21-1"
or call 1-800-647-1110. Video is $30, plus $4 for shipping and handling.

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