Learning Session: Racial Inequities in Housing

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Name: Learning Session: Racial Inequities in Housing
Date: September 1, 2020
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
Registration: Sorry, online registration for this event has been closed.
Event Description:
This is a virtual event.

The Urban Neighborhood Initiative and KC Chamber are co-hosting a Learning Session on September 1, to take a deeper dive into the issue of racial inequities in housing in the Kansas City area. 

Join us on Tuesday morning, September 1, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. as Dianne Cleaver, president and CEO of the Urban Neighborhood Initiative, introduces a Learning Session about housing inequities due to race. The presenters include Mikki Anderson, Vice President with Purpose Built Communities, and Tyler Cukar, a KC native living in NY who authored Orchestrated Urbanism: the Race Built City. Each will present on the topic and then you'll have a chance to ask questions. The session is free and open to all KC Chamber members and non-members.

Participants can expect to gain an understanding of the historic federal, state and local policies and private practices that blocked access of African Americans to home ownership and to specific areas of our city. Participants will also gain an understanding of how those historical policies set up decades of financial disinvestment and prevented access to jobs, education, and upward mobility for generations to come.

Thank you to our 2020 Diversity & Inclusion Sponsors!

Presenting Diversity Sponsors for 2020 are CommunityAmerica Credit UnionEvergyHallmark, and T-Mobile.
 
Our Cornerstone Sponsors are American Century InvestmentsBayerBlue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas CityCommerce BankEwing Marion Kauffman Foundation, JE Dunn ConstructionLockton CompaniesREACH Healthcare FoundationSaint Luke's Health SystemUMB and Waddell & Reed.
 
Our Regional Diversity Sponsors are Black & VeatchHeavy Constructors AssociationSpire and VanTrust Real Estate.
 
Our Supporting Diversity Sponsors are Andrews McMeel UniversalBank MidwestChildren's MercyEnterprise Holdings, Ernst & Young, GarminH&R BlockHNTBHoneywellHusch BlackwellKansas City University of Medicine & BiosciencesKVC Health SystemsLathrop GPMLead BankMazumaMcCownGordon ConstructionShook Hardy & BaconState StreetStinson LLPThe Builders' AssociationThe University of KansasThe University of Kansas Health System and Turner Construction.
Date/Time Information:
Tuesday, September 1
10-11:30 a.m. 
Contact Information:
Sydney Wickliffe, KC Chamber Events Coordinator
Fees/Admission:
This event is free to attend. 
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