Community Conversations: Housing Justice

What is Housing Justice and how does it affect our communities? In this free roundtable community discussion, you’ll join a conversation with Greg Jarrell, author of Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods, and Val Brown, Levine Museum’s Chief Education and Strategic Partnership Officer, to discuss the legacy of Housing Justice and its continued impact today. Join the Levine Museum of the New South by contributing to the conversation.

 The conversation will focus on the three themes:  
 

• Resistance (movements against injustice) 

• Reproduction (continued policies and practices of urban renewal) 

•  Persistence (How communities can work together, slowly and persistently creating alternatives for thriving communities) 

 Community Conversations is designed for an audience of forward-facing problem solvers and individuals who want to create change in their community. It encourages round-table dialogue amongst attendees and guest panelists, prompted by conversation starters aligned with the evening's theme. This series explores themes of interest to local communities and creates space for intentional conversations that enlighten and spark change. 

This event is FREE however, we do encourage you to register.
Parking is free and available onsite.

 About the Facilitators:  
 

Greg Jarrell is an author and community organizer in Charlotte, NC. His recent book Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods, examines the influence of white churches and Christians in planning, executing, and profiting from the federal Urban Renewal projects of the 1950s and 60s, in Charlotte and beyond. Greg is Senior Campaign Organizer for The Redress Movement, a national nonprofit organizing local communities for housing justice. Greg is based in west Charlotte’s Enderly Park neighborhood, where he has lived and worked on equitable housing issues since 2005. He is one of the co-founders of QC Family Tree, a cultural organizing group in his neighborhood, and a founding organizer of Charlotte’s West Side Community Land Trust. He and his spouse Helms are both ordained ministers and are parents to two teens. 

Host or Publisher Levine Museum of the New South