Community Futures Lab

“The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.” – Zora Neale Hurston

PolicyLink invites you to a timely conversation on the legacy and leadership of historic Black towns and settlements.

This webinar will explore descendant-led strategies to protect, preserve, and restore these cultural and historical spaces—laying the groundwork for justice and repair.

June 10, 2025
9:30–11:00 AM PT | 12:30–2:00 PM ET
Zoom Webinar - Register at the link in bio

Featured speakers include:
Dr. Andrea Roberts, University of Virginia
Taiwan Scott, Hilton Head activist and community organizer
Dr. Julian Chambliss, Michigan State University

Read Repairing Roots at spatialfutures.org before the event and join us in the movement for reparative spatial justice in land and housing.

https://policylink.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_K89V0Md1SAGy9NUGw0J6hA #/registration

Repairing injuries of space and time in Philadelphia’s housing system | op-Ed by co creator Rasheedah Phillips in

Reframing housing as a temporal justice issue allows us to confront the lingering effects of redlining.

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/redlining-philadelphia-generational-wealth-homeownership-20250126.html

Calling all housing and land justice advocates! It’s time to reshape the landscape with a reparative spatial justice approach. Apply for the Spatial Futures Fellowship at by October 18 at 5pm PST and Join our webinar on October 2nd at 12:30PST for more info webinar: https://plcylk.org/sff-II-webinar
Application: https://plcylk.org/sff-II-app
New resource and website with more info about the fellowship and where reparative spatial justice is happening around the country!: www.spatialfutures.org

Join us on April 30 for “Radical Homecoming: Reclaiming Spaces, Identities, and Futures,” a gathering at the nexus of Afrofuturism, Indigenous futurisms, and the pursuit of environmental, economic, and spatial justice. This event brings together artists, cultural workers, and scholars to discuss and dream up the futures of housing, land reclamation, and the principles of radical homecoming — envisioning a world where the relationship to land, community, and space honors every individual’s right to a stable, healthy home beyond the constraints of zip codes.

Dedicated to unraveling the threads of oppression and displacement through the lenses of Afrofuturism and Indigenous futurisms, our gathering seeks to craft a future that reclaims ancestral wisdom and narratives of liberation. With contributions from artists, poets, cultural workers, and scholars Edyka Chilomé, Grace Dillon, Ingrid LaFleur, Tonika Lewis Johnson, and Tanaya Winder, we will engage in presentations, discussions, and artistic performances that not only imagine but insist on the creation of abundant, safe, and healthy futures for all. This event is a call to collective action and imagination, inviting us to redefine the essence of community and belonging through the radical act of coming home—to ourselves, our communities, and the land that sustains us.

Featured Speakers:

Edyka Chilomé, poet
Grace Dillon, professor in the Indigenous Nations Studies Program, in the School of Gender, Race, and Nations, at Portland State University
Ingrid LaFleur, curator, design innovationist, pleasure activist, and Afrofuturist
Tonika Lewis Johnson, social justice artist
Tanaya Winder, poet
REGISTER TODAY! - https://policylink.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LhrFReOSR3e5GpdRhx0PWw #/registration

Register now for an upcoming town hall next month to discuss efforts to discuss the human right to housing in California. Learn more about what a right to housing means, why it matters, and how international human rights principles apply to our work to advance housing justice in California.

Who: Speakers include Former United Nations Rapporteur Leilani Farha, California Assemblymember Matt Haney, ’s Director of Housing Futures and Land Justice Rasheedah Phillips, and Professor Farah Hassan. Event co-hosts include UCLA’s Promise Institute for Human Rights, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), Housing Now!, ACLU California Action, PolicyLink, National Homelessness Law Center, Power California Action, and Western Center On Law & Poverty.

Panelists will explore how international human rights principles can inform our housing justice work in California, how a human rights framework applies to housing policy at the state and local levels, as well as the status of the campaign to pass ACA 10 — a bill to enshrine the human right to housing in the state constitution.

Acts of exclusion, dispossession, and erasure have limited physical space and intergenerational possibilities for Black, Brown, and Indigenous families who have been denied an opportunity to dream and plan for their futures.

Join us in reimagining spaces for equity and justice. Reparative Spatial Justice is more than a concept; it’s a movement. See how it’s transforming the system in land and housing. Transforming spaces to repair past harms.

Learn how Reparative Spatial Justice is creating a new paradigm in land and housing. https://plcylk.org/grounding-justice