By Any Means Necessary

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Reginald Black, Advocacy Director for the People for Fairness Coalition and the COVID-19 Outreach Initiative to discuss the clearing of homeless encampments in Washington, DC, the shortcomings of a pilot rehousing program that is geared more toward clearing communities rather than housing people, and the challenges that keep people unhoused in Washington, DC and in the country.In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Anthony Rogers Wright, Director of Environmental Justice with New York Lawyers for the Public Interest to discuss climate resilience provisions in Biden’s infrastructure law and the challenges that poor communities and communities of color may face in securing grants as part of those programs, the institutional hurdles that keep resources from the communities that need them, the neoliberalism inherent in grant programs, and history of racist exclusion from resources through qualification c