Greening in Place: Protecting Communities from Displacement
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This guide is intended to give other park and conservation agencies like land trusts the language, tools and framework to address connections between social and environmental issues and take affirmative steps to ensure that all communities are able to benefit from green investments.
Through its deep community engagement, Audubon Center at Debs Park has come to see that park and conservation agencies can play an important role in fights to prevent gentrification and displacement. This begins by recognizing that the work of park and conservation agencies occurs within a broader social context. To ACDP, in order to serve the community, we need to be engaged with the community’s struggles. ACDP firmly believes that by prioritizing community needs, conservation organizations can achieve significant results for neighborhoods: more green space and more stable, secure housing for people, leading to a stronger bond of stewardship among people, their waterways and bird habitats.
Greening In Place was produced in partnership with the Audubon Center at Debs Park, Public Counsel and Southeast Asian Community Alliance.
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