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Articles by Veronica Beaty
Co-op Organizing in Dayton: Sustaining Movement for the Long Haul
The following is a transcript of the video above, from our webinar on “Remaking the Economy: Finding the Levers for System Change.” View the full webinar here. Lela Klein: It’s interesting.
The New Normal: Building Affordable Housing with Natural Disasters in Mind
These days, natural disasters headline the news on a regular basis. Hurricane Ida flooded both New Orleans and New York City; fires have been rampaging throughout California, Oregon, and Washington; and some dams and rivers in the West have barely any water left. Low-income and BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted. This is especially true in rural communities where substandard housing is sited in flood plains, in the wildlife-urban interface, and with limited access to fresh water.
Designing for Climate Justice: A Conversation with Dr. Dorceta E. Taylor
Click here to download this article as it appears in the magazine, with accompanying artwork. These recordings are from an interview published in the Fall 2021 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly, “Climate Justice: A Movement for Life.” Below the clips, find the text as published in the magazine. In this conversation, the Nonprofit Quarterly’s president and editor in chief, Cyndi Suarez, and preeminent environmental justice scholar Dorceta E.
Toppling the Monument to Silence: Racism and the Founding Fathers of Environmental Organizations
The environmental field is no less steeped in white supremacy than any other field currently being held up for inspection—indeed, the very foundation of environmentalism is rooted in white supremacy, and the rampant racism and discrimination in the writing and actions of early environmental leaders are well documented.1 Yet, acknowledgment of the troubled racial history of environmental organizations is slow coming.
Sacramento Housing Alliance: Dispelling Myths About Affordable Housing | KCET
City Rising is a multimedia documentary program that traces gentrification and displacement through a lens of historical discriminatory laws and practices. Fearing the loss of their community’s soul, residents are gathering into a movement, not just in California, but across the nation as the rights to property, home, community and the city are taking center stage in a local and global debate. Learn more. A bus pulls up to a row of tan and red multistoried apartments in South Sacramento.
Housing as a human right
This essay was co-written by Aileen Joy and Veronica Beaty. Housing advocates have repeatedly made the call for brave, creative solutions for Sacramento’s growing homeless and housing crisis. Stakeholders have laid on the table many proven solutions, including immediately resourcing and building new homes affordable to the most vulnerable Sacramentans and preventing further displacement of our neighbors.
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