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Community group unveils Austin StoryMap documenting displacement and calls to reopen community funding
Summary
Land Justice Community School presented a StoryMap tracing Austin’s history of segregation and displacement, highlighted local case studies (Rosewood Court, Goodwin Apartments, Acacia Cliffs), and urged the city to reopen Community Initiated Solutions (CIS) funding and add capital grants.
Presenters from the Land Justice Community School — including Genesis Pedraza, Marie Gutierrez and Alexia Lake Clerk — introduced a StoryMap to the Community Development Commission on Dec. 9 that compiles community histories and case studies documenting gentrification, displacement and environmental injustice in Austin.
Genesis Pedraza framed the StoryMap with historical context, recounting early settlement, segregationist municipal planning and federal redlining…
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