Notes on Deep Democratization of Capital with The Boston Ujima Project
Nia Evans
Mean wealth of white families vs median wealth of Black families (that’s what she said, that may have been what she meant)
$250,000 vs $8.
Accessible report from the federal reserve bank of Boston
Affordable housing situation bad and new plan addresses mostly only upper income.
Huge disparity in assets and in cost of debt for white and Black households in Boston.
Aaron Tanaka, executive director of Center for Economic Democracy, he/him pronouns.
- How to use capital, wealth-building not just for the purpose of building wealth for disadvantaged groups that need it, which is important, but also to help social justice movements meet their goals.