Join the Charlotte Public Library and Shelburne Pierson Library for a discussion about “Priced Out: 15 Years of Gentrification in Portland, Oregon.” This film looks at how new investments in urban neighborhoods are just the latest chapter in a long history of institutional discrimination that has sought to isolate and exclude minorities. As central city neighborhoods continues to change all across the nation, more and more poor, working and middle class residents of all colors and backgrounds are finding themselves priced out of the inner city and the American Dream.

Lydia Clemmons of the Clemmons Family Farm, one of the few African-American-owned farms in Vermont, starts us off with an update on the farm and strategies the family is using to hold onto the farm even as property taxes rise and pressure mounts to sell. Jess Hyman then facilitates a discussion of the documentary Priced Out: Portland’s History of Segregation and Redlining. Please consider watching Priced Out (1 hr.) and Out of the Ashes, Born Again (6 min.) prior to the discussion. Both are available free on YouTube.

Facilitated by Jess Hyman, Fair Housing Project of CVOEO, with Introduction by Lydia Clemmons, Clemmons Family Farm. This event is part of April Fair Housing Month in collaboration with the Clemmons Family Farm, Fair Housing Project of CVOEO, and Pierson Library.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqfu6grTkqHNIIPePj170v_hlbphx7ruTf