{"id":14420,"date":"2025-10-21T19:35:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14420\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T19:35:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:35:15","slug":"new-online-timeline-highlights-history-of-racism-displacement-in-florida-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14420\/","title":{"rendered":"New online timeline highlights history of racism, displacement in Florida housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"501\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DG01993.jpg\" class=\"attachment-247461 size-247461 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNewspaper drawing of a free Black man being sold to pay a fine in Monticello, FL\/\/Digital Collection in the State Archives of Florida<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tListen:<\/p>\n<p>Florida\u2019s growing cost of living and rapid development have made this state unaffordable for many, especially Black Floridians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A new multimedia project from the Florida Policy Institute that illuminates how racism affects homeownership in the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The timeline dives into how systemic racism over the past 160 years has led to the displacement of Black Floridians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cicely Hodges is a policy analyst focused on housing at the Florida Policy Institute.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to teach people about the history of the policies that are put in place, because oftentimes those policies are rooted in racism,\u201d Hodges told WMNF.<\/p>\n<p>She said she cried while making the timeline.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was also just sad to read back, see some of the stuff that, yes, was worse, but you can also see some of the parallels with today. And that\u2019s frustrating. More than frustrating. It\u2019s a bit disheartening,\u201d Hodges said.<\/p>\n<p>The timeline touches on redlining, where lenders and insurers would discriminate against minority areas, making homeownership more difficult.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All the way to last year\u2019s HB 1365, which prohibits local governments\u2019 authority to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/pinellas-police-are-tracking-where-the-unhoused-sleep-before-state-ban-takes-effect\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">allow homeless encampments<\/a> on public properties.<\/p>\n<p>Hodges hopes the lawmakers will use this timeline to advocate for change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need more housing built that is affordable for people who are cashiers, waitresses, people who are doing the majority of the jobs in the state that keep the state running,\u201d Hodges said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatimeline.org\/housing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View the timeline here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newspaper drawing of a free Black man being sold to pay a fine in Monticello, FL\/\/Digital Collection in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,1644,12575,1929],"class_list":{"0":"post-14420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news","11":"tag-housing","12":"tag-housing-crisis","13":"tag-racism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}