SUPER ABUNDANT NEIGHBORHOODS: Regeneration on Kansas City’s Eastside

Affordable housing remains one of the greatest determinants of personal, familial, and community health because it directly affects one’s means to care for self and family.

The United States federal policy of “redlining” majority low-income, Black neighborhoods as ‘risky’ for mortgage and insurance lenders kept Black Americans in the 20th century from building wealth via homeownership while inequitable land use policy destroyed or contaminated housing stock in Black and Brown neighborhoods.

As a result, Black Americans are projected to have a net negative or zero wealth valuation by the year 2050 without intervention to create 50,000-55,000 quality jobs within said community and/or bolster Black homeownership as a means for generational wealth transfer, self-determination, and community equity.

Our panel of poised practitioners will share their innovative, entrepreneurial approaches to creating attainable, sustainable structures and homes from vantage points of the environment and economics–all while working alongside the surrounding community to imbue it with opportunities to build generational wealth, a sense of belonging, and community equity.