Telling Our Stories: The Housing Chronicles
Housing is a human right. The housing crisis is wreaking havoc nationally. This podcast highlights how this is playing out specifically in Black Berkeley, California. Healthy Black Families Inc chronicles the lived experience behind what people call "gentrification" and documents our endeavor for our "Right to Stay" & our "Right to Return".
Episodes
20 episodes
Episode 20: Thomas Berkeley Square Development: The Why Matters (Part II)
Alan Dones, a revered developer sits with us and tells a story that began fourteen years ago - and hasn't ended yet. His journey developing what is known as Thomas Berkeley Square, the principled and unwavering way he navigates obstacles, the g...
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Episode 20
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21:38
Episode 19: Thomas Berkeley Square Development: How it Happened (Part I)
Alan Dones, a revered developer sits with us and tells a story that began fourteen years ago - and hasn't ended yet. His journey developing what is known as Thomas Berkeley Square, the principled and unwavering way he navigates obstacles, the g...
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Episode 19
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47:50
Episode 18: Lessons and Ambitions: Berkeley Housing Preference Policy (Part III)
We return with this final segment (recorded at the same time as Episodes 16 and 17) which wraps up our three-part interview on Berkeley’s first Affordable Housing Preference Policy. City of Berkeley’s Community Development Project Coordinator A...
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Episode 18
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51:04
Episode 17: Right to Stay, Right to Return - Berkeley Housing Preference Policy (Part II)
In this Part II of our three-part interview, we continue our conversation with Anna Cash (Community Development Project Coordinator at City of Berkeley, Jassmin Poyaoan former Program Director of the Community Economic Justice Clinic at East Ba...
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Episode 17
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31:36
Episode 16: Grassroots Organizing - Berkeley Housing Preference Policy (Part I)
In this Part I of a three-part series we are joined by City of Berkeley’s Anna Cash City of Berkeley’s Community Development Project Coordinator, Jassmin Poyaoan former Program Director of the Community Economic Justice Clinic at East Bay...
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Episode 16
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38:48
Episode 15: Looking Ahead - Friends of Adeline (Part III)
In this part III (and final) segment of our interview with Friends of Adeline, we speak with Ms. Ritchie Smith, Willie Phillips, and Chris Schildt about their perspective of the initiative known as Equity for Black Berkeley, its funding and tho...
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Episode 15
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27:56
Episode 14: The Heavy Lift of Organizing - Friends of Adeline (Part II)
In this Part II of our three-part interview with key members of Friends of Adeline - a local South Berkeley organization, we continue our conversation with Ms. Ritchie Smith, Willie Phillips, Mari Mendonca, and Chris Schildt. How is the endeavo...
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Episode 14
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45:00
Episode 13: I AM - Friends of Adeline (Part I)
In this Part I of a three-part interview, we meet some key members of Friends of Adeline - Ms. Ritchie Smith, Willie Phillips, Mari Mendonca, and Chris Schildt. These four neighbors that call South Berkeley home tell us who they are and how the...
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Episode 13
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41:17
Episode 12: Unpacking Racism in Development - Alan Dones (Part III)
In this last of a three-part interview with Alan Dones, we discuss where the money comes from in development, how the stark contrast of who has access to it and who doesn’t undergirds the continuity of institutional racism, and how that then, i...
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Episode 12
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30:21
Episode 11: Communities & Developers - Alan Dones (Part II)
In this is Part II of a three-part interview with Alan Dones, he breaks down what development is, how the intricacies of community engagement fit into large scale development, and what a healthy relationship between the two might look like....
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Episode 11
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33:31
Episode 10: Black Developers - Alan Dones (Part I)
In this Part I of a three-part interview, we meet Alan E Dones - a third generational local developer in the Bay Area. He shares with us the personal legacy that is his profession, how racism works in housing development to keep people oppresse...
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Episode 10
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27:10
Episode 9: Advising Paradigm Shifts - Creative Development Partners (Part II)
In this last second half of a two-part interview, Randolph Bell of Creative Development Partners (an organization hired by the City of Berkeley to facilitate communication between the city, a soon-to-be-chosen developer, local community organiz...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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32:56
Episode 8: Facilitating Community Agreements - Creative Development Partners (Part I)
In this Part One of a two -part interview, meet Randolph Belle of Creative Development Partners - an organization hired by the City of Berkeley to facilitate communication between the city, a soon to be chosen developer, local community organiz...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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31:50
Episode 7: Equitable Black Berkeley - The Moving Parts - City of Berkeley (Part III)
In this last part of our three-part interview with Mayor - Jesse Arreguín, Council Member of District 3 - Ben Bartlett, and Chief of Staff (to the Mayor) - Jaqueline McCormick we continue our conversation on how, as administrators of the City o...
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Episode 7
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37:30
Episode 6: Why Equitable Black Berkeley? - City of Berkeley (Part II)
In this part two of our three-part interview with Mayor - Jesse Arreguín, Council Member of District 3 - Ben Bartlett, and Chief of Staff (to the Mayor) - Jaqueline McCormick we continue our conversation on how, as administrators of the City of...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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27:52
Episode 5: The Terrain - City of Berkeley (Part I)
Meet the trio in the City of Berkeley pushing boundaries to try and usher in new solutions to rooted wrongs in housing and development injustices. In this part one of our three-part interview meet Mayor - Jesse Arreguín, Council Mem...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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28:08
Episode 4: Equity! - HBF (Part IV)
This is the finale of our 4 part conversation with incredible leaders of Healthy Black Families, we will unpack a recently much-used term “equity” as we experience it and what we aim for when we envision it. Most importa...
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Episode 4
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29:45
Episode 3: The Road Ahead - HBF (PartIII)
This episode is part three of our four-part conversation with Executive Director Wilhelmina Wilson, Deputy Executive Director Ayanna Davis, and the Director of our Board Suzette Chaumette incredible women playing critical roles at Healthy Black...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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30:14
Episode 2: How We Got Here - HBF (Part II)
In this Part II of a four-part series Wilhelmenia Wilson (Executive Director), Ayanna Davis (Deputy Executive Director), and Suzette Chaumette (Board President) of Healthy Black Families, Inc. identify some of the root societal reas...
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Episode 2
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23:32
Episode 1: Who We Are - HBF (Part I)
In this Part I of a four-part series meet Wilhelmenia Wilson (Executive Director), Ayanna Davis (Deputy Executive Director), and Suzette Chaumette (Board President) of Healthy Black Families, Inc. Who are they? What led them to th...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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28:19
