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In the Spring of 2019 students in URBST 371 studied how communities around the United States are using community land trusts, community bills of rights and similar mechanisms and strategies to acquire control over local land and land use decisions. Working with and learning from two community organizations that have formed community land trusts \u2013 South Bronx Unite<\/a>, in the New York City borough of the Bronx; and\u00a0GES Coalition<\/a> in the Globeville and Elyria-Swansea neighborhoods of Denver, CO \u2013 they sought to understand how these mechanisms have been implemented to combat environmental injustice, displacement and gentrification.<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2022\/03\/Hitting-Home-scaled.jpg” alt=”Not sure where next month\u2019s rent is coming from? 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Their research was included in the Flushing Rezoning Community Alliance\u2019s (FRCA) white paper. The students were also on the front page of the Queens Tribune when they presented their video at a community town hall on the Flushing West rezoning.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Open Sans||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”16px” header_4_font=”Open Sans|600|||on||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Check out student projects from\u00a0<\/strong>Professor Wakefield\u2019s Urban Studies 373, Spring 2014. The theme of the course, and the projects, was Resilience in NYC! \u2013 https:\/\/nycresiliencespring2014.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n