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Buro Happold Hosts Racial Equity Takeover Discussion with Industry Thought Leaders
February 22, 2021
By Interior Design Staff
Buro Happold, a global consulting and engineering services firm, hosted its 14th Collective Impact event, Racial Equity Takeover, February 17, bringing together an esteemed virtual panel of designers, social entrepreneurs, and government agency leaders to shed light on the topic. “It is imperative that we have these conversations not only during Black History Month, but that our awareness grows and we commit to being actively anti-racist,” says Heidi Creighton (pictured left), Los Angeles-based associate principal at Buro Happold, who helped organize the event. With every project that we take on and every decision we make, we must center equity above all else. Only then will we have a just built environment where everyone can thrive.”
On the evening of Thanksgiving 2020, Angelenos watched as formerly unhoused families occupying CalTrans-owned houses in El Sereno were forcibly evicted by California Highway Patrol officers during a tense, hours-long standoff.
The activists, part of the group Reclaim and Rebuild Our Communities, didn t remain in the properties for long, but their protest made their demand loud and clear they wanted the long-vacant homes to be turned over to community ownership, by way of a community land trust.
COMMUNITY OWNERSHIP
Community land trusts, or CLTs, are non-profit organizations that scoop up affordable housing stock before it gets into the hands of speculators, in order to keep it permanently affordable.