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🗓️ 8 May 2025
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How does the legacy of racial covenants impact housing equity and even fire recovery?
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Host Curtis Chang welcomes Jasmin Shupper, visionary founder and CEO of Greenline Housing Foundation, to explore how racial injustice magnifies the impact of natural disasters. Together, they dive into the devastating effects of the LA fires—particularly the Eaton Fire in Altadena—where Black homeowners have faced disproportionate losses due to historical practices like redlining and racially restrictive covenants. Jasmin shares how her mission to close the racial wealth gap and prevent mass displacement offers a path toward real estate justice, resilience, and renewal. She also reflects on her personal journey from Chicago’s South Side to leading national efforts for housing equity and disaster recovery.
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0:00.0 | The idea of equity has been so highly politicized that it's lost its humanity, right? |
0:09.0 | It's lost the human touch. |
0:11.5 | And as people of faith, it's lost the Imago Day, right? |
0:15.0 | That we're actually talking about real people. |
0:34.3 | Welcome to the Good Faith podcast. |
0:36.1 | I'm your host, Curtis Chang. |
0:38.5 | The Good Faith podcast is where friends who follow Jesus help each other make sense of the world. Now, back in January of this year, |
0:46.6 | much of the world was transfixed by the images of destruction coming from L.A. fires. Horrific, horrific, |
0:53.9 | images. However, as often is the case in |
0:57.5 | natural disasters, much of the world has since moved on. Yet there are some people who have not |
1:04.5 | moved on, but dug in. And there are especially people who have dug in to promote healing, restoration, and justice. |
1:13.9 | And I'm especially encouraged when the people who have dug in are followers of Jesus. |
1:20.6 | And that's why I'm so excited to have as I'm my guest today, Jasmine Schuper. |
1:26.0 | Jasmine is the founder and CEO of Greenline Housing Foundation, a nonprofit aiming to close |
1:32.5 | the racial wealth and home ownership gap and reverse the effects of systematic racism |
1:37.6 | by increasing access for black and brown communities. |
1:41.8 | Jasmine, welcome to the Good Faith podcast. |
1:45.9 | Thanks, Curtis. Thank you so much for having me. That was such a wonderful introduction. Well, I, well, you know, I think many people |
1:52.2 | view the LA fires as simply a natural disaster and are not aware of the ways in which racial justice, racial disparity are actually dynamics |
2:04.5 | as part of the fires. Can you explain that? Yeah, absolutely. And I appreciate you touching on that |
2:10.6 | because while we know that natural disasters do not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity |
2:15.9 | in class, what we do know is that there is often a disproportionate impact in the rebuilding, |
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