Homeowner Help Desk Coming To Laurelton

0
1103

The Center for NYC Neighborhood will host a Homeowner Help Desk at the next Federated Blocks Of Laurelton meeting on November 3, 2022 at the Evangel Temple. The Homeowner Help Desk will provide housing counseling, per se legal advise and access to resources for homeowners. The Center for NYC Neighborhoods and DIVAS for Social Justice have been working together for a year to create a multimedia based youth project that complements their initiative, The Black Homeowners Project. The Black Homeowners Project provides resources and counseling to black homeowners throughout New York City since 2018. Youth participants from DIVAS for Social Justice will launch the first part of the project in November of 2022 at the Garden Of Resilience. The 1st part of the project will feature the voices of students from the local schools: P.S 132, P.S 156 and The Linden SDA School. Students share through writings and audio recordings what makes their house a home. In addition, with the curriculum developed by DIVAS and the Center students have also learned about the path to homeownership. The goal of the multimedia aspect of this project is to encourage intergenerational wealth in communities of color by planting the seed early. For more information and resources regarding homeownership, please check out the Homeowner Handbook released this past summer.

Previous articleLaurelton Community Day 2022
Next articleFeels Like Home To Me- Black Housing Project
Clarisa James
Clarisa James is the Co-Founder/Executive Director of DIVAS (Digital Interactive Visual Arts Sciences) for Social Justice. For the past seven years DIVAS has provided free or sliding scale technology training to youth in underserved communities in Central Brooklyn and Southeast Queens. Ms. James has been dedicated to youth development work for the past 15years in the roles of Teaching Artist, After School Director, Curriculum Specialist and artist. Her life's work encompasses empowering youth in underserved communities to use technology for social change and think critically about the issues that are affecting them most. For the past seven years Ms. James has facilitated workshops that help youth develop multimedia projects around environmental justice, housing, leadership development and reproductive justice. Ms. James holds an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College's Film & Media Department. In addition to DIVAS for Social Justice, Ms. James currently serves on the advisory board of the Children’s Cabinet, Office of the Deputy Mayor Strategic Policy Initiatives at City Hall. Clarisa James is full of gratitude to her parents for providing such a wonderful upbringing and having the foresight to move into the community of Laurelton in the early 1970's. Clarisa is proud to be a daughter of Laurelton.