Session 1: Introduction to Community Stewardship of Land
Learning Objectives:
- Begin building connections and relationships between participants.
- Orient participants to the program so they are clear about the structure and content.
- Provide historical context for land use and development in our region through an intersectional racial justice lens.
- Define and introduce concepts of Community Stewardship and explore how this strategy can fight displacement.
Powerpoint Slides:
Introduction to Community Stewardship of Land Presentation
Learning Activities
- History of land use and development timeline walkthrough with discussion
- Define and contextualize community stewardship and principles through interactive discussion
Other Resources:
- Introduction to Community Stewardship of Land Term sheet
- We're Still Here: An Interview with Cecile Hansen, Chair of the Duwamish Tribe Seattle Live video 8:15 mins
- Pushed Out: Displacement Today and Lasting Impacts, a 5 min video by the Urban Displacement Project
- The Linchpin of a Just Housing System, Homes for All Campaign Principles
- Right to the City Alliance - Right to the City Alliance (RTTC) emerged in 2007 as a unified response to gentrification and a call to halt the displacement of low-income people, people of color, marginalized LGBTQ communities, and youths of color from their historic urban neighborhoods. RTTC is a national alliance of racial, economic and environmental justice organizations.
- Urban Habitat - Urban Habitat works to democratize power and advance equitable policies to create a just and connected Bay Area for low-income communities and communities of color.
TraeAnna Holiday, CREST cohort member from Africatown Seattle:
"I am so honored to be a part of what Puget Sound Sage is doing in this city. They brought together 20 organizations who may not have known each other, and together we are taking progressive models that are happening across the nation to reform and develop our spaces, have ownership in our spaces, create and rebuild our communities, and reclaim what has been taken from us. I represent Africatown Seattle, and if you know of what the Central District has gone through - it has suffered a great deal of gentrification, inequity and displacement. Africatown is working hard on the ground to develop buildings that are bringing our communities back.
For me, this is very personal. My family was displaced in 2003 and my parents had to buy a home in Federal Way. I have never known of Federal Way before. I grew up in the Central area, and it was all I knew for my whole life. It was so heartbreaking to my mother for us to have to move. We are one family, but displacement has affected so many more. This is why I’m so excited to be a part of this cohort. With the work of Puget Sound Sage, I am learning more on how to do this in a progressive way, ensure that we keep affordability for our communities and for our people, and to come back to spaces that we grew up in that we know and love.”