March 29, 2024:
In this Boston Globe article, highlighted Opportunity Communities’ and Dr(a). Estrella-Luna’s efforts to highlight the housing discrimination faced by Black Americans in Boston and neighboring cities. The article also touched upon the event hosted on March 28th.
The article highlighted:
Neenah Estrella-Luna, a social equity researcher and advocate who led Thursday night’s conversation on the legal practices of that time, pointed to a 1981 report by the Mayor’s Office of Fair Housing that concluded there were “clear and widespread differences in the information given to whites and Blacks about available housing.”
“The city failed to prevent racial disparities that they knew about and failed to protect Black and brown folks from discrimination,” Estrella-Luna said. “The city of Boston has a lot to atone for.”
Read the article via this link: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/03/29/metro/roxbury-housing-discrimination-redlining-racism/.