The city of Buffalo has been selected for PolicyLink’s All-In Cities Anti-Displacement Network. It is a network of local elected officials, city staff, and community leaders from 10 cities that will advance a range of strategies to prevent displacement of low-income residents and communities of color. These strategies include: renter protections, community land trusts and community ownership models, commercial neighborhood stabilization, inclusionary zoning and other equitable development strategies. The other 9 cities within the network are: Austin, TX; Boston, MA; Denver, CO; Nashville, TN; Philadelphia, PA; Portland, OR; San José, CA; Santa Fe, NM; and the twin cities of Minnesota (Minneapolis and Saint Paul).

Each city is using localized data to analyze the displacement challenges facing renters, at-risk homeowners, local businesses, and cultural districts and institutions. Here in Buffalo, the reps of the All-In Cities Anti-Displacement Policy Network include Franchelle Parker and Harper Bishop of Open Buffalo, Rahwa Ghirmatzion, Joyelle of Matt Urban Center, Councilman Rivera, Nona Watson and Keith Lucas for BURA, and Sarah Wooton and Andrea Ó Súilleabháin from PPG. If you would like to learn of strategies to prevent displacement in Buffalo, please read our publication on affordable housing here: https://ppgbuffalo.org/files/documents/housing_neighborhoods/affordable_housing_policy_for_the_city_of_buffalo.pdf

For more information about The All-In Cities initiative please visit their website here: http://allincities.org/where-we-work/anti-displacement-policy-network