This week on Ask Kristen Anything about Gentrification for May 13, 2024, I had three wonderful questions that gave me a chance to share my tips for land liberation (Spoiler alert: one of them is investing in guaranteed housing, not just affordable housing).

Plus I shared how I would approach studying urban planning (and public administration) if I was just starting as an undergrad. I also shared other podcast recommendations and reminded everyone that I too have a podcast called Defying Gentrification.

Black folks can be agents and victims of gentrification, nothing more and nothing less. Oh, and I'm going to be doing my art in peace. – Defying Gentrification

Hey y'all! This is an update on the future of this platform. My health has dictated that instead of leading with defying gentrification, I need to lead with crafting liberation. Or in other words, I need to center my art projects and imbue them with the values about community and collectivity that I've always honored. I'm tired of being sick and broke trying to make folks listen. So this podcast will be shifting focus, but keeping the same name for now. Oh and to make it clear from what the episode title is and why, here's my final word on Black folks and gentrification:Black folks, especially in the diaspora, but sometimes even in heavily colonized areas of our home continent, can facilitate gentrification over their own people. And of course it can happen to us. But until the day we globally admit that Black folks that aren’t named Oprah, Beyonce, Tyler Perry, and other documented Black billionaires and millionaires can’t be gentrifiers, we are done as a movement and as a people. Those people I named aren’t above being followed, sanctioned, denied financing opportunities, and the like for what they are intending to do with their work, because of global white supremacy over the financing markets and sometimes just the pettiest of racisms and other isms we do need to process as a people.Also, I will have 15th anniversary celebration this falll, a showcase of what the future of Kristen Jeffers Media will hold. Get full access to Defying Gentrification, Crafting Liberation at theblackurbanist.substack.com/subscribe

1. Black folks can be agents and victims of gentrification, nothing more and nothing less. Oh, and I'm going to be doing my art in peace. 06:50
2. Gentrification is fascist, but it's not too late to stop either. 39:46
3. Making Plenty Good Room with Rev. Dr. Andrew Wilkes 01:15:23
4. The Grief that Gentrification Brings 20:35
5. [PODCAST] Past and Present Black Migrations for Liberation with Arionne Nettles 01:25:09

Some useful links I shared:

Planners Network —

www.plannersnetwork.org

Tysir’s Salih work to break down Audre Lorde’s “masters tools” quote and relate it to three past revolutions that have failed to finish their course and have rooted existing conflicts

https://www.instagram.com/p/C643ItCt0Ol/?igsh=cDdpdW91eGo5MHJy

And a comprehensive list of mutual aid and action times compiled in their Linktree

https://linktr.ee/red_maat?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZOQ0U_ZwnCjVwN_E2OA7XjVLZ30m3bd4WKXWf1kyO029v2maAT_mcwkaA_aem_AYLeGJnusmBav156_Luq_TqhuAU1-yUdXZuwFg1-ITpCxEBbrTl-_3P79gcjynCbZPFbfLu0cbQYLVVv0Vzf1xJN

The US Housing and Urban Development Annual Household Median Income Calculator (This is what is used to determine fair market rents and other rates of public assistance)

https://www.huduser.gov/Portal/datasets/il.html

The books The Color of Law and Just Action (note I am a Bookshop affiliate and will get some of the proceeds from this sale)

And finally, my other sibling podcasts I mentioned today which you can also find on YouTube or your other favorite podcast players:

Queer for Cities

Urban Planning is Not Boring

Architecture is Political (Arch is Polly)

Four Degrees to the Streets

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