The WNET Group "Close To Home" Town Hall Series on Housing Equality (Wednesdays, April 26 - May 24, 6-7:30pm ET)

What will it mean for America if its vibrant cities and towns are remade as enclaves where only the wealthy can thrive? How do campaigns for housing equality amplify moral calls for racial and economic justice? How is housing activism today informed by ancestral wisdom about settler colonialism, anti-Blackness, xenophobia, and old-fashioned greed? What can organizers on the frontlines of those experiences teach people across the United States about empowering communities and disrupting historic inequality? In tonight’s conversation we preview The WNET Group’s upcoming virtual town hall series, Close To Home. Over the next five weeks the series will gather with frontline thinkers and doers to examine the core topic through a specific lens: housing and economic justice, food sovereignty and security, homelessness and community, cultural displacement, and media narratives about housing. Series participants Renee Goust, a Mexican-American singer-songwriter and activist; Rosalinda Guillen, founder of the food justice organization Community To Community; Felukah, an Egyptian born and New York based rapper and activist; Mark Crain, Executive Director at Dream of Detroit; and Nushrat Rahman, a Detroit Free Press reporter as Report for America corps member join MetroFocus to lead this candid conversation about housing equality.