From Montana to Connecticut, from Colorado Springs to Chicago, the affordable housing crisis has mobilized working class tenants to reshape the political landscape of their cities to prioritize the wellbeing of their renting neighbors. Tenant unions from all across the country converged in Kansas City Missouri in a shared effort strengthen a political movement that seeks to ensure everyone in the United States has access to safe and truly affordable housing.
Inspired by Richard Rothstein’s ‘The Color of Law,’ this film focuses on Kansas City’s Highway 71 project and reveals how the city’s urban renewal efforts displaced 10,000 families. This excerpt from Land of Opportunity: The Road of Resistance explores the impact of real estate and federal policies on urban communities.
While the 2021 surge of Omicron was often described as mild, the number of hospitalizations still packed beds and spread an already exhausted workforce thin. This excerpt of the Kansas City PBS episode of Flatland In Focus examined how our response to the pandemic could have been made more sustainable for healthcare workers and what supports they needed to stay in the profession.
Who benefits most from this emerging industry and are those harmed most by the damaging policies of the war on drugs getting a fair cut? The legalization of medical marijuana in Missouri has resulted in $30 million in sales in June of 2022 alone.