The 5th District Council election is just around the corner, and we’ve updated our candidate report card to reflect current campaign finance reporting and the final list of candidates! Our final document is live here: http://bit.ly/2019CandidateReportCard A pdf for mobile viewing is online here: http://bit.ly/UpdatedReportCard2019
This week we attended an RRHA Board of Commissioners meeting and this weekend we’ll attend the next Coliseum redevelopment commission meeting (Sat, 9am!). These two back-to-back sessions left us wondering: What does public housing demolition have to do with coliseum redevelopment? As it turns out, quite a lot. One of …
Navy Hill was demolished by developers whose haste to increase their profit margins at the expense of communities of color led to the destruction of a neighborhood, its institutions, its public schools, and portions of its legacy. Today, Richmond’s leadership plans the large-scale demolition of public housing courts in concert …
