Facebook’s Housing Echo Chamber Details
PERSPECTIVE-In 2019, I reported in 48 hills that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was using mega-grants to shape California housing law and policy.
CZI gave Enterprise Community Partners $500,000 to draft and then lobby for Assemblymember David Chiu’s AB 1487, the law that authorized the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to become a one-stop regional planning agency overseeing transportation and housing and to levy taxes on the nine-county Bay Area; CZI formally endorsed that bill.
CZI also gave the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley nearly a million dollars: $440,000 for unspecified uses and $500,000 to start a Housing Lab essentially, a development incubator under the aegis of the celebrated public university.
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Black entrepreneurs say proposal to freeze cannabis permits for part of Sacramento will hurt equity progress
Sacramento City Council was set to discuss the proposal at a meeting Tuesday but postponed the decision, ironically, to April 20. Author: Van Tieu (ABC10) Updated: 11:52 PM PDT April 6, 2021
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Sacramento City Council is considering an emergency marijuana dispensary permit use freeze in North Sacramento. Black cannabis entrepreneurs are speaking out against the possible freeze, saying exceptions must be made to ensure equity.
In the ever-growing cannabis industry, few people look like Maisha Bahati, CEO of Crystal Nugs. The marijuana delivery service is the only one in Sacramento owned by Black women.
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A group of young women have united to collectively bring attention to change that’s threatening lives and livelihoods in a local Oak Park neighborhood.
Eliza Deed, Chevonne “Chevy” Neal and Sparkle Scott are part of Speak Out Oak Park and have come together to document the stories and experiences of Black people in Oak Park.
Each has her own passions and paths to activism and community work, but all say it’s time to step up and speak out about many of the ills plaguing residents, including gentrification, housing discrimination, violence, racial profiling and negative perceptions.
Eliza Deed
Eliza Deed is an outspoken opponent of the gentrification that’s happening in Oak Park and often takes to Facebook Live to chronicle her personal experiences in the historically Black neighborhood.