Kansas City Housing & Civil Rights Fight Coming Soon

A bit of a preview here and more than our fair share of blogging hype that might not resonated beyond a few feel-good meetings . .  Check-it . . .

"Faith groups in Johnson and Wyandotte counties “have separately identified the growing homelessness and shortage of affordable housing as (a) crisis with historical parallels to the exclusionary practices of redlining and racial covenants in the 1900s,” said a news release from a national network of grassroots organizations called the Direct Action and Research Training, or DART, Center.

"The Rev. Bruce Draper, president of Churches United for Justice, a coalition of 17 churches in Wyandotte County, and one of the organizers of the events, said continuing disinvestment in portions of Wyandotte County and a denial of homelessness in Johnson County are the results of historical redlining and ignorance of poverty.

"Redlining has an established history in Kansas City, Kansas, and metropolitan areas across the country. The discriminatory practice involved government, loan and insurance agencies withholding services to people — mostly Black people and other ethnic minorities — who lived in certain neighborhoods that were deemed financially risky."

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Faith groups promote economic justice, civil rights in Kansas City events * Kansas Reflector

Kansas faith groups say the impacts of historical redlining and discriminatory housing practices are alive in the Kansas City metropolitan area.