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Re-upping this list for a very small sample of the policies, ideas, investments Black communities have been pushing and making. Public banks, community-land trusts, worker-owned cooperative businesses, and more. https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/black-people-have-been-building-a-better-world-who-will-join-them
& since that list went up, here’s more.
How about a worker-owned industrial conglomerate. #Baltimore. https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/worker-owned-industrial-conglomerate-makes-first-acquisition
How about a worker-owned industrial conglomerate. #Baltimore. https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/worker-owned-industrial-conglomerate-makes-first-acquisition
How about making wealthy institutions pay their fair share of local taxes. #Philly. #Boston. https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/why-some-argue-tax-exempt-institutions-should-be-paying-property-taxes
How about making the real estate industry more representative of the cities and neighborhood it has often treated like assets to be plundered. #Detroit https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/what-if-detroits-real-estate-industry-looked-more-like-detroit
How about making racial equity part of basic investment analysis for the municipal bond market. If you stop murdering and harassing and jailing Black people your city could get a higher bond rating. Imagine that. https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/investors-want-to-align-their-dollars-with-racial-justice-demands
How about Universal Basic Income. https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/these-mayors-say-this-is-universal-basic-incomes-moment
How about getting private equity out of the single-family housing market. https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/californias-new-law-communities-chance-stop-private-equity-housing-grab
How about moving local government bank accounts out of Wall Street banks & into municipal banks that can boost local lending to BIPOC communities. This is what Black voters are talking about in PHILA-FUCKING-DELPHIA. https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/philadelphia-examining-whether-public-deposits-can-close-racial-disparities
How about conveying tax-delinquent and idle properties in BIPOC communities into into the hands of BIPOC developers to sell or rent to BIPOCs. #Chicago https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/can-chicago-develop-chicago
How about making local government procurement more representative of the cities that pay for that procurement. Yeah that’s right guess what Black elected leaders in THE SOUTH are intersectional about this shit. Get with the program. https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/cities-steering-more-public-contracting-dollars-to-lgbtq-owned-businesses
