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".
Telling Our Stories: The Housing Chronicles
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 organizations, and Bay Area Rapid Transit (known locally as BART). Who is Creative Development Partners? What is their role in Equitable Black Berkeley? What are some examples of different ways communities have attempted to have a say in development? Do any
of them compare to Equitable Black Berkeley?
Referenced in Episode:
Community Benefit Agreements (CBAs):
https://www.policylink.org/resources-tools/tools/all-in-cities/good-jobs/community-benefits-agreements
Hunters Point Shipyard: https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=1oq0_yqF5fuxy3R3WfjCDiiALE4_Ml1kQ66siCqtLYE0&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650
Oak to 8th / Brooklyn Basin:
https://www.oaklandca.gov/projects/brooklyn-basin-formerly-oak-to-ninth-mixed-use-development
Connect With Our Guest:
Randolph Belle - Creative Development Partners
Website: www.creativedevt.com
Email: rbelle@creativedevt.com
Phone: (510) 333-9175