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MULTIRACIAL STRATEGIES

OVERVIEW OF PRESENTATION. IRP Multiracial Coalition Building ReportSummary of findingsLand use planning and race in Richland County, SCCase study. CONCLUSIONS. Successful multiracial coalitions can and do existContext mattersTensions should be understood and confronted as structurally produc

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MULTIRACIAL STRATEGIES

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    1. MULTIRACIAL STRATEGIES Maya Wiley Director The Center for Social Inclusion

    2. OVERVIEW OF PRESENTATION IRP Multiracial Coalition Building Report Summary of findings Land use planning and race in Richland County, SC Case study

    3. CONCLUSIONS Successful multiracial coalitions can and do exist Context matters Tensions should be understood and confronted as structurally produced Trust and ideology/worldview matter Strong constituency-based institutions matter

    4. Tensions between groups are structurally produced Competition for resources Segregation Political fragmentation

    5. INGREDIENTS FOR SUCCESSFUL MULTIRACIAL COALITIONS Visionary leadership who trust each other; Sufficient institutional structures to support the collaboration; Some degree of shared ideology/worldview (race analysis); Clear communication of common interests to constituents; and Strategic vision for structural reform communicated in clear terms to constituents

    6. Sprawl in the Metro Columbia Region The City of Columbia Population grew 2% (1970-2000). vacancy rates increased by 11% poverty rates increased by 25% The surrounding suburbs Grew by 83% (1970-2000) vacancy rates declined by 25% poverty rates decreased by 50% in the surrounding suburbs Source: Department of Housing and Urban Development. State of the Cities Database System.

    7. Black poverty is more highly concentrated than white poverty.

    8. Blacks, Latino/as and other non-whites have higher rates of poverty than whites

    9. Low-income Blacks have High rates of homeownership Homeownership rates in Richland County

    10. Sprawl is not uniform across Richland County

    11. There are few jobs in Black concentrated poverty communities

    12. Because of sprawl, environmentalists want to preserve green space in Lower Richland

    13. Richland County’s land use plan tries to curb sprawl Large lot zoning Small increase in minimum lot size in rural areas (Ľ acre lot size change increase) Incentives for planned growth with higher densities development of new villages

    14. Large lot zoning will not curb sprawl A Ľ acre lot size change increases the cost per housing unit by $350-500 for rural land $1,500 to $2,300 for urban/suburban land No impact on sprawl in the Northeast and Northwest Harder for Black homeowners to subdivide land for family use?

    15. New Villages in LR, if built, would be concentrated poverty communities Leapfrog development, unconnected to opportunity structures No employment base Far from employment

    17. What went wrong in Richland County? The planning process lacked a racial analysis of sprawl and development in the region The result was a one-size-fits all approach, which does not stem sprawl Black community suspicious of sprawl control measures Environmental community and Black community lack cohesion and united front

    18. RACIAL ANALYSIS IS INDISPENSIBLE We must Define oppression across racial/ethnic groups Understand the structural arrangements that support and reinforce racial stratification

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