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What's Happening |
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Meet and Greet the New Executive Director
Tracy L. Brown
Monday, November 16, 2009 8am - 10 am Breakfast will be served
Boston Private Bank & Trust Company 10 Post Square Office Square Boston, MA 02109
HUD Funding Secured for 2009 - 2011
In October 2008, the FHCGB was awarded a three year contract with the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Fair Housing Initiatives Program. Subject to appropriations, the contract covers roughly half of our budget to support our work enforcing federal housing discrimination laws for 2009 - 2001.
In 2006, the FHCGB was one of only 13 organizations nationwide chosen to receive this performance based grant. We are pleased by HUD’s acknowledgement of the continued high level of our work as well as by the stability the multi -year grant provides.
Race and Place
Race and Placeis the FHCGB’s new dialogue series that builds and collaborates with local suburban networks in Greater Boston. Using the PBS documentary “RACE - the Power of an Illusion,” that questions the very idea of race as biology, the FHCGB developed a curriculum that focuses on how institutions shape and create race, giving different groups vastly unequal life chances. We tie local historical facts to current research to allow the groups to look into how today’s housing patterns can be seen as perpetuations of deliberately constructed historical polices. So far residents in
One town had 30-35 participants spanning town officials, people representing faith communities, and local businesses. A participant reported, “Although many of us believed we knew a lot about race and racism, we were truly awed by our own new learning. We were bowled over by the information – really moved and impressed -- and had very rich discussions afterwards. And many of us have decided to keep going. We’re still meeting to see what we can do together as a group.”
This initiation of understanding and local action was exactly our hope in creating Race and Place, and we will work with interested towns in the coming months to help them shape local advocacy agendas. To find out about bringing Race & Place to your town, contact Sharon Armour at sarmour@bostonfairhousing.org
Updated October 7, 2009 |
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