Hello Again Friends and Fellow Neighborhood Guardians, Welp, we've done it again. RAIL CDC is extremely proud to be featured in this national spotlight by LISC. LISC Phoenix has been a key partner in our inclusive, community development work as well as our small business & commercial corridor economic development work. Check out the full article here: People Over Property: A Latinx Community Asserts Its Historic Place in Mesa, AZ https://www.lisc.org/our-stories/story/people-over-property-latinx-community-asserts-its-historic-place-mesa-az/ Displacement, purposeful and targeted displacement, is affecting many of our neighborhoods here in Maricopa County. The same families and old boys club power holders who segregated and pushed Black, Latino, and Indigenous families into neighborhoods like the Southside Neighborhoods in Mesa while holding ownership of the very houses that those Black, Indigenous, and Latino families occupied are still up to the same old tricks. This time, generations later, this neighborhood is being "moved" again by the same ownership groups that did this to Black, Latino, and Indigenous families all those years ago. Our work has shown with data, that decision maker in Mesa, while racing ahead with developers, is not choosing an inclusive growth policy that includes the people currently living in the neighborhoods. As my fellow organizer in Phoenix, Masavi Perea from CHISPA says, "Mi casa no es su casa. No gentrification without representation." Read it, share it, have the tough conversations with your elected leaders, and please join RAIL CDC in our anti-displacement work as we push for justice for our communities. Always, Do It For The Neighborhood! Thank You, Gracias, Obrigado, Ryan David Winkle (602) 741-6465 Executive Director - www.railcdc.org Executive Director - www.azfhc.org #iheartmesa #downtownmesa #southsidemesa #distritolatino #commUNITY #development #economicdevelopment #justice #gentrification #displacement #cityofmesa #peopleoverprofit #doitfortheneighborhood (at Mesa, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVBic-RhyNE/?utm_medium=tumblr
