*Across America, Black and Brown communities are facing a housing crisis that is all too familiar and growing more urgent every day.
In major cities across the U.S., housing is the leading problem. And in Philadelphia and Cleveland, specifically, the stories are nearly identical: affordable housing is vanishing, gentrification is pushing families out of neighborhoods they’ve called home for generations, and systemic barriers are keeping too many from owning property and building generational wealth.
Dr. Darrin Anderson, CEO and President of the Urban League of Greater Philadelphia, is sounding the alarm locally, regionally, and nationally about the nation’s housing crisis. We spoke to him while he was in Cleveland, participating in the National Urban League Conference, of which his local affiliate office belongs to, in Philadelphia…