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The Community Fund for four groups has helped Tammy Granados (photo here) navigate in common systemic barriers among native house buyers.

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In the first part of the documentation, entitled “What we came here”, the viewers meet Tammy Granados, a young mother of four, who knew the insecurity of the accommodation when the rent was raised on the apartment of two bedrooms of his family.

Granados has contacted Four Bands Community Fund, a Financial Community Development Institution (CDFI) which contributes to creating a path to home ownership for communities and poorly served individuals – something that is particularly complicated for Amerindians.

“Most of the problems with which our owners face have to do with the obstacles put in place around the field on which we have no control, which have been put in place through treaties with the American government,” explains Lakota Vogel, executive director of Four Bands Community Fund. Aboriginal communities, for example, work by the Indian affairs office to buy and sell tribal land rather than by a traditional real estate agent, which can make property even more out of reach.

“Who do you call when you want to buy a house?” Said Vogel, the typical house purchase process for Aboriginal communities. “We have no real estate companies.”

These types of structural barriers, explains Vogel, put significant pressure on the health of native communities.

“It is like chronic stress that goes beyond us all, and our populations experience these unprecedented health disparities,” she said. “We adopt this state of mind of rarity and our body responds by increasing a stress hormone called cortisol. Having a house decreases this response to stress. ”

Four bands include not only these special obstacles and the damage they cause – they are also able to help indigenous communities unravel them.

“The first thing we do in an Amerindian reserve is sort of demystifying the process,” explains Vogel in a round table led by RWJF, in partnership with Upworthy. “We examine the terrestrial site with the member of the community and tell them at each stage of the process.” Four bands then correspond to any available capital that will help them buy the house.

Thanks to a partnership with four groups, Granados was able to move his children in safe, safe and affordable housing where they are able to thrive.

“Becoming the owner gave me the freedom to show my children that you have not only working to survive,” explains Granados in the film. “You can work to prosper, you can work to live, you can work to develop your mind, you can work by doing something you love. This is why your mind came to earth. ”

“What we came here” is the first part of Hope at homeDocumentation in three parts of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Emmy®-Nomine the television of the creative people’s creation. It is available to broadcast here.

Shala Staple and her daughter outside their house in New Jersey. Staple was able to secure an affordable house in a safe neighborhood thanks to a 1975 Supreme Jersey Court decision which has mandated each municipality to book housing for low -income house buyers.

Photo by Ryder Haske, People’s Television, Inc.

“Moving”, the second part of the Docuseries, highlights discriminatory housing practices in New Jersey, one of the most diverse regions of the nation – and also one of the most separate.

“People want to be able to control where others, especially people of color, live,” explains Adam Gordon in the film, who works as executive director of Fair Share Housing Center. “The KKK did not want black residents to be in the same city, and yet it is always the same (rules) that we use to govern our communities today,” he explains.

These discriminatory practices, known as “exclusion zoning”, launched years of activism which finally led to the Supreme Court of New Jersey Negation of the Mount Laurel watershed in 1975. The decision revealed that exclusion zoning practices were unconstitutional and said that each city in New Jersey must provide their “fair share” of affordable housing in each region. Organizations such as the Fair Share Housing Center help to apply these housing laws and oblige the municipalities of New Jersey to reserve housing for low -income families.

Due to this decision, more than 400,000 citizens of New Jersey – like Shala Staple, who appears in the film – can now access secure housing in neighborhoods that would otherwise be out of reach.

“Affordable housing made me feel able to provide for my children,” said Staple. “I am really excited for their future.”

However, the “move day” shows that there is even more work to do, because several communities in New Jersey keep up Against affordable housing mandates. The just sharing housing center and other defense defense groups will continue to fight to ensure that each community is accessible to New Jerseyans.

“No community should be closed to anyone,” said Gordan in the post-relaxing round table. “Each community must make its fair share of affordable housing (providing), and each city, even the richest, must be part of the solution.”

“Moving day” is the second part of Hope at homeDocumentation in three parts of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Emmy®-Nomine the television of the creative people’s creation. It will be available to broadcast here From April 15.

Ashleigh Bowman (photo here with her three children) was able to secure his house with the help of a community land trust, which allows him to build wealth while keeping his home in the long term affordable.

Photo by Ryder Haske, People’s Television, Inc.

Finally, in “Roses and Thorns”, director Milena Mikael-Debass shows viewers how community fiducies, or CLT, can improve access to housing in Lynchburg, Virginia.

A CLT, explains the film, is a regional non -profit organization which acquires land, holds it in trust, then rents the land for the construction of houses, agriculture, etc. The CLTs were created for the first time in 1969 in response to segregation under the laws of Jim Crow, allowing black farmers to access agricultural land and black families to obtain affordable housing. These trusts continue to help people like Ashleigh Bowman, a single mother of three children, participate in the home ownership when they could not normally access them. The home ownership through clts also helps marginalized communities to build generational wealth.

“If something happens to me, I will be able to transmit this house to my children,” said Bowman in the film, who bought his house via a community property trust after an event that changes life. “(They will be) able to afford it because the Community Land Trust guarantees that this land will not be volatile with the market.”

Organizations like Forceled Solutions Network seek to scale this type of shared property model by joint stockings across the country, explains Alex Cabral, principal director of innovative finances at Fashiond Solutions Network.

To do this, the network based on based solutions is associated with other organizations and provides support such as solutions for political advocacy, education, research and housing technology to help them implement these models throughout the United States, their last objective is to produce a million affordable houses over the next ten years, to acquire the United States. This will help ensure a safer, safer and healthier country.

“Everyone is entitled to a safe and secure house,” explains Cabral. “And those who seek to be owners deserve this opportunity.”

“Roses and thorns” is the third part of Hope at homeDocumentation in three parts of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Emmy®-Nomine the television of the creative people’s creation. It will be available to broadcast here From April 22.