From Duncan Agnew / Evanston RoundTable: Through a land trust, Community Partners in Affordable Housing sells homes to buyers at a fixed cost while maintaining ownership of the land they’re built on, allowing those who wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford market-rate housing to become homeowners. Some of the homes are even built by high school students enrolled in a local Geometry in Construction program.
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Demond Drummer is the Director of Strategy at the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at the New School. A leading proponent of a Green New Deal, Demond has introduced bold new ideas and shifted public discourse, advocating for...
Antonio Lyons, Director of Georgetown University’s Racial Justice Institute’s EnActors, is a multi-disciplinary artist and Applied Theatre Practitioner blending poetry, music, and movement. A Fulbright Awardee and Oregon Shakespeare Festival Producing Fellow, he created We Are Here, a social activism...
Yara Tarabulsi is a social anthropologist with experience in topics of gender justice, care, economic justice, migration and public policy. She has a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor’s from the American University of Beirut. She...
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