#negroremoval

Urban Renewal has always meant Negro Removal. Check out the Color of Law so that you will have the right ammunition to fight an uphill battle.

We found this displacement letter template in the back of a Slum Clearance report from 1953. By the late 1960s, an estimated 29,464 families had been displaced by urban renewal projects in New York City, 41% of which were families of color. As this illustrates, often families would recieve a letter that their home was in the way of a new housing development, expressway or civic building and given months or sometimes weeks to leave. Despite promises of rehousing, families, especially those of color, were unable to move into the new developments and often pushed out of the neighborhood. Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, the largest housing development in Manhattan, did not even allow black families when it opened in 1947. Urban renewal also caused a mass exodus of white families out of the city to the suburbs known as white flight. #UrbanRenewal #NegroRemoval #gentrification #fha #robertmoses #slumclearance #urbanism #nychistory #pennsouth #washingtonsquarevillage #publichousing #nycha #mitchelllama #housingpolicy #lowereastside #chelsea #brooklyn #thebronx #nycurbanism (at Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsZBhE9l3M1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2908ub33n4og

Nathaniel Smith, pioneer in the national equity movement, cautions stakeholders of the Liberty City 79th Street Corridor about the potential pitfalls of urban renewal.