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"Jessica Bellamy and Josh Poe," The Laura Coates Show - SiriusXM radio segment - Feb 7, 2020

Description: Discussing The Root Cause Research Center and their new Southern Abolitionist Planning Curriculum.

Public Land to Private Hands: The Smoketown HOPEBOX Development

Root Cause Research Center

Mar 23
10 min

Public Land to Private Hands: The Smoketown HOPEBOX Development

If you’re that sorry that you just follow the money, then you got a problem…It’s not about the community, it’s about how much money [you]...

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Community Complaint: Letter from California Neighborhood to Office of Planning & Design Services

Dr. Michael L. Brooks

Feb 18
4 min

Community Complaint: Letter from California Neighborhood to Office of Planning & Design Services

Community Complaint: Letter from California Neighborhood to Office of Planning & Design Services By Dr. Michael L. Brooks February 17,...

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Root Cause Research Center

Jun 22, 2020
1 min

Invest/Divest Louisville Kit

Sunday, June 21st, marked the 100th day since 26-year-old, off duty, EMS worker, Breonna Taylor, was brutally murdered by police in her...

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Root Cause Research Center

Jun 10, 2020
2 min

Community Complaint: Two Americas: June 6th Address

Address was delivered on 06/06/2020 Four centuries ago, our forbearers created a pair of separate and unequal societies. One was white,...

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Plantation Capitalism in Louisville, Kentucky

Root Cause Research Center

Jun 2, 2020
10 min

Plantation Capitalism in Louisville, Kentucky

The plantation has always occupied a central place in US iconography. In recent decades it has been described as a dead, yet still...

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Root Cause Research Center

May 12, 2020
4 min

Root Cause Research Center's Comments on Louisville Metro's Use of COVID Relief Funds

On May 1, 2020, Louisville Metro Government released their Proposed Amendment to the 2019 Annual Action Plan for HUD Entitlement Funds to...

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Russell: What is the Right to Remain? Part 5

Root Cause Research Center

Mar 23, 2020
7 min

Russell: What is the Right to Remain? Part 5

SMART Russell is NOT Safe: How Metro is Spinning Increased Surveillance as Technological Advancement Preface: We want to acknowledge two...

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Russell: What is the Right to Remain? Part 4

Root Cause Research Center

Mar 10, 2020
10 min

Russell: What is the Right to Remain? Part 4

West Louisville Gentrification: What is the 9th Street Divide Redesign Project, Vision Russell, and Russell: A Place of Promise?...

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Russell: What is the Right to Remain? Part 3

Root Cause Research Center

Feb 19, 2020
5 min

Russell: What is the Right to Remain? Part 3

Housing, Neoliberalism, and Financialization: What REALLY Happens when the Private Sector Controls Public Assets In this post we’re going...

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Russell: What is the Right to Remain? Part 2

Root Cause Research Center

Feb 17, 2020
3 min

Russell: What is the Right to Remain? Part 2

Louisville Wins at the Expense of Vulnerable Black Communities: How Hiding Poverty and Displacement is a Violent Strategy to become a...

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Russell: What is the Right to Remain? Part 1

Root Cause Research Center

Feb 10, 2020
3 min

Russell: What is the Right to Remain? Part 1

“African Americans experience homeownership in ways that rarely produce the financial benefits typically enjoyed by middle-class white...

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Louisville’s Eviction Crisis is Being Ignored

Root Cause Research Center

Nov 23, 2019
6 min

Louisville’s Eviction Crisis is Being Ignored

Written By Josh Poe (A shorter version of this op-ed appeared in the Courier Journal in July 2019) The eviction rate in Louisville is...

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