Artists and Activists Discuss Culture, Gentrification, and Displacement

How can the arts empower communities threatened by erasure? How do artists and culturemakers advance narratives and cultural activism that can disrupt displacement? What can leaders in this field teach us about leveraging arts and culture to strengthen cities and towns across the United States?

“CLOSE TO HOME: Town Halls on Housing Equality” was a five-part digital summit with frontline thinkers and doers from across New York City and around the country. At the town halls, which took place from April 26 to May 24, 2023, housing equality was examined through a specific lens: housing and economic justice, food sovereignty and security, homelessness and community, culture and displacement, and media narratives about housing. Learn more here.

Featuring Najmah Abraham, Djali Brown-Cepeda, Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nation), Ronald Moten, and Betty Yu. Moderated by Brian Tate. Opening performance by Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache).