Racial Wealth Gap Toolkit

Money-Sharing Community

This group functions like savings circles, allowing you to invest in projects you believe in and help neighbors accomplish their goals.

Combating the Negative Impact of Gentrification

Red-lining presentation: this is a presentation on the history of red-lining and the ways it has created economically disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Housing Costs in Asheville

This article uses Asheville, NC, as a test case, studying the toll expensive homes can take on broader community financial well-being.

Incubator to Put Community Money to Work

This link demonstrates how governments have put their assets to work to address economic justice issues.

Public Assets

This link shows even more specific ways that public assets can be put to work.

Anti-gentrification activism

This link demonstrates a number of ways to get involved with anti-gentrification activists, advocates, and organizer groups.

Small Business Anti-Gentrification Networks

This is a link to an organization that works with small businesses to avoid displacement by gentrification. Also take a look at their toolkit and their research.

A Long Talk

Founded by Kyle Williams, this is a process designed to “erase racism and dismantle systemic oppression in America” through “ongoing conversation focused on truth, understanding, and problem solving, leading to individual and cooperative activism.”

How Can We Win

A short (~6 min) video in which author Kimberly Jones powerfully sums up the work before us. For those of you whose complicated relationship with free market capitalism began as a kid playing Monopoly, Kimberly’s analogy will be particularly impactful.

Inclusionary Zoning

New effort encourages state and local leaders to address wealth and housing gaps with more inclusionary zoning, while educating broader public on zoning as a tool for racial and economic equity.