November 2021   -  RCRC

This story map investigation documents Louisville’s nuisance law, and how the forces of nuisance and placed based policing were complicit in the murder of Breonna Taylor. We look at nuisance law through the historical lens of what scholar Ananya Roy calls “structures of colonial and racialized policing” (Roy, et al , 2021).

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This research was also presented by co-principle investigators Jessica Bellamy and Josh Poe at UCLA's Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. The panel discussion was entitled: "Property, Personhood and Police: Counter-Mapping Nuisance"

Last Updated Spring 2021   -  RCRC

The Louisville Eviction Lab (LEL) is a collective research effort between housing organizer-researchers and residents who are fighting poverty and housing insecurity in Louisville, Kentucky. We create resources for a public pedagogy and praxis that support base building activities to collectivize tenant's struggles against state and private control over poor communities in Kentucky.

We will provide regular updates about the state of eviction in Louisville, with the goal of developing a statewide database.

November 2020   -  2020 RCRC Graduate Research Fellow Project

This mapping project spatially represents where Louisville Metro Police Dept gun violence incidents have occurred across the City of Louisville and illuminates patterns of this particular form of police violence through an anti-oppression lens.

Dec 2019   -  by RCRC Team

As reported in our 2020 State of Black Louisville Report Who Owns Russell editorial, here are resource materials for community organizing and analyzing property ownership in Louisville KY's historically Black Russell Neighborhood.