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What the DAP and Affordable Housing Have in Common?

Season 1 Episode 2 | 10m 21s

Everybody needs a place to belong. But it's especially challenging to feel at home in the midst of an affordable housing crisis. But just as Black soldiers in the 70's created the DAP to build Dignity and Pride while locked out of equal housing opportunity, community organizers today show us how community solidarity can be a first step to making housing attainable.

Aired: 02/26/24
Funding for CITIZEN BETTER is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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KJ uses the skills he's picked up as a sneakerhead to try out mutual aid.
When climate change showed up in Beata's life, the solution started in her neighborhood.
Can Social Media activism actually work?
Community organizer KJ Kearney learns about the link between food and freedoms.
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